Key Terms

• agency, 112
• biography and life story research, 107
• constructivism, 113
• critical life episode, 117
• data collection methods, 112
• design methodology, 112
• discourse analytic question, 127
• event-specific life experience, 116
• external validity, 132
• guided autobiography, 118
• Guided Race Autobiography (GRA), 121
• historical truth, 132
• human individuality, 111
• Identity and Success Life Story Method (ISLSM), 120
• idiographic approach, 109
• inference, 129
• internal validity, 132
• interpretation, 125
• Jeffersonian method, 125
• life course perspective, 112
• Life Story Interview, 117
• life-story model of identity, 115
• lifetime period experience, 116
• masking, 124
• meaning, 126
• mixed-methods design, 113
• narrative mode of thought, 111
• narrative specificity, 116
• narrative theories of personality, 114
• narrative truth, 132
• nomothetic approach, 109
• paradigmatic mode of thought, 111
• person-centered psychology, 109
• personology, 109
• pseudonym, 124
• psychobiography, 110
• psychodynamic approach, 127
• psychosocial construction, 115
• representativeness, 132
• Self-Defining Memory Task, 119
• self-defining memories, 115
• semistructured interview, 117
• storied thought, 112
• temporal order, 112
• thematic content analysis, 129
• theoretical generalizations, 132
• thought sampling, 129
• transcription, 125
• unstructured interview, 116
• worldview, 113