PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Identity Formation, Color Blindness, Intercultural Competence
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What happened to our ability to adjust to environment as we grow up. What are the claims and what are the evidence. Period of time devoting resources to learning. Changes in both party of immigrants and of receiving immigrants. What kind of changes do host receive from immigrants. What changes do immigrant experiencing in interacting with host. Scan environment and decide what is helpful. What do i need to know to survive. Focus on one thing and decide we will focus on this. Harder to learn a language as one grows old. No same sensitive period for all aspect of language. Hard to learn when we get older. We adapt to a new culture identity = we adapt a new culture framework. Culture evolution won"t happen so quickly if not for language. How different is one culture from another. Children socially engage in the western cultures more than adults. Exposure to western culture prior to landing.