1 Chapter 12: Life Stories Questions based on the lecture and/or textbook. 1. Each of our life stories is unique. True or false? 2. We all have and continue working on our life story throughout our entire lives. True or false? 3. A person’s internalized and evolving life story is referred to as a person’s _____. 4. Our narrative identity is an account of all of our experiences. True or false? 5. Our narrative identity is something that is created by the person. True or false? 6. Our narrative identity contains those events and episodes that have meaning to us. True or false? 7. Our narrative identity is constantly evolving. True or false? 8. It is believed that the narrative identity is a solution to a problem we discussed last week. What problem is that? 9. List the 2 ways it is believed people understand the world. 10. The _____ is the belief that we understand the world and our experiences by means of reason, logic, observation, and cause-and-effect. 11. The _____ is the belief that we understand the world and our experiences by means of striving to do things over time. 12. DMN stands for _____. 13. What does the DMN refer to? That is, what is it about? 14. When people are engaged in externally generated cognitive tasks, DMN activity _____. Increases, remains the same, decreases. Pick one. 15. When people are engaged in daydreaming, thinking freely, remembering personal episodes from the past, or imagining the future, DMN activity _____. Increases, remains the same, decreases. Pick one. 16. Which one of the following thought about the individual as an autobiographical author? a. Freud b. Tomkins c. Murray d. Jung 17. _____ said we are social actors; the performers in a play. a. Freud b. Tomkins c. Murray d. Jung 18. _____ refers to basic feeling states. 19. Name the 2 positive emotions mentioned in the textbook. 20. Name the 4 positive emotions mentioned in the textbook. 21. A _____ refers to the memory of a specific happening or event that involves at least one affect. 22. A _____ refer to the relations among various scenes. 23. List the 3 types of scripts. 24. _____ scripts refer to a person’s experiences of early scenes of intense joy or excitement which commit them to a long-term goal of improving things or making the world better. 2 25. _____ scripts refer to positive early experiences are contaminated by intense emotions of shame, fear, or disgust. 26. _____ scripts refer to patterns of associations that people form between emotional scenes and their life values. 27. _____ refers to the belief that people are inherently flawed or evil and need to be restrained by rules and contingencies and their scenes emphasize fear or anger; such people value obedience to authority. 28. _____ refers to the belief that people are good or capable of being good and their scenes emphasize joy or sadness; such people value self-fulfillment. 29. _____ refers to the process of connecting related scenes into a meaningful pattern. 30. _____ refers to detecting similarities in different experiences. 31. _____ refers to detecting differences in different experiences. 32. _____ is my memory about me. 33. When telling a part of your life story, the particular story you discuss has a beginning, an event, a consequence, and a reaction to the consequence. This reflects the term _____. 34. The meaning or value a person derives from an experience is referred to as _____. 35. During _____, people begin to derive meaning or value from their personal experiences. a. Childhood b. Adolescence c. Early adulthood d. Middle adulthood e. Late adulthood 36. _____ refer to memories that are vivid, affectively charged, repetitive, linked to other similar memories, and related to an important unresolved theme or recurrent concern in an individual’s life. 37. People tend to have more episodic memories between the ages of _____ than any other point in life. 38. The fact that people tend to have more episodic memories more at one point in life than any other point in life is referred to as _____. 39. _____ refer to points in life stories where emotionally positive events suddenly become negative. 40. Use Table 12.6 to answer this question. List the 3 most common high points people reported in their lives. 41. List the 3 most common low points people reported in their lives. 42. List the 3 most common turning points people reported in their lives. Applied Questions: Questions that you should be able to answer based on the lecture and/or textbook, but the answers are not provided in the lecture or book. 1. *Q: Do you think someone can truly understand you without understanding your life story? Please fully and clearly explain your answer. 2. *Q: On a scale of 0 (not at all ) to 100 (totally), how well do you think you truly know someone if you do not know their life story? Please fully and clearly explain your answer. 3 3. *Q: On a scale of 0 (not at all ) to 100 (fully), how much of your life story is known by the top 3 to 5 people who you are most close to? You do NOT have to explain your answer. 4. *Q: One day, I am thinking about what I want to accomplish in the next 10 years. While I contemplate the future, my DMN is highly active. True or false? 5. *Q: One day, I am thinking about what I want to accomplish in the next 10 years. While I contemplate the future, my DMN is inactive. True or false? 6. *Q: One day, I am working on a research paper I would like to publish and I find myself struggling to figure out how to word a particular paragraph. While I contemplate the correct wording, my DMN is highly active. True or false? 7. *Q: One day, I am working on a research paper I would like to publish and I find myself struggling to figure out how to word a particular paragraph. While I contemplate the correct wording, my DMN is inactive. True or false? 8. *Q: Using your personal life, describe a scene as defined in the textbook. Be clear and complete in your example. 9. *Q: Do you think you represent humanism or normativism more? Please fully and clearly explain your answer. 10. *Q: I see big differences between my first and second marriage. The term that best reflects that capability is _____. 11. *Q: I have been teaching at the college level for about 30 years. Interestingly, the way I teach now is no different than the way I first started teaching. The term that best reflects that capability is _____.
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