PSYB30H3 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Notes
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Icarus was boy that made wings to fly towards sun, only to have them melt, leaving him to fall to the sea: grope was student at harvard who participated in henry a. murray"s investigation in the 30"s and. 40"s: wrote short autobiography, was interviewed and given tests such as tatt, viewed his life as cycle of success and mediocrity, he saw himself was mediocre at. Harvard and was awaiting an ignition to success: valued money, power, glory and fame. Icarus story is a way for murray to make sense of grope"s life, it is murray"s story about grope. Personality psychology uses paradigmatic mode of knowing (using scientific method to find cause and effect relations), but sometimes use narrative mode of knowing (informed biographies of individual cases: e. g. Grope was related to icarus to best convey aspects of his personality: murray"s interpretation is an example of a case study.
