ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part explains the laminal model of internalization and externalization, the concept of hierarchies of signs, and the dialogical self theory to introduce the semiotic-dialogical approach to the construction of professional identity. In general, entry into the professional role during university studies is guided at the level of social representations and coordinated at the level of intra-psychological processes manifesting in the ongoing transposition of cultural material that shapes psychology students’ responses to events and how they build their self-understanding as psychologists. Dialogues between these two organizations—social and psychological—occur through the internalization/externalization of social representations.
