PSY 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Learned Helplessness, Psy
9 Mar 2018
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Start their lives very early (get their education young, get married young, have kids early) Enter adulthood at a later time (they wait to have kids and get married and take longer to finish their education, continuation of college that being grad school) There"s more of an emphasis on graduate school. The question of what makes an adult arises. The environment you are in can make you feel helpless and don"t feel motivated to change the situation that you in. An addition to the field of psychology: positive psychology. Finding optimistic environment in which people can bloom and blossom. An example of the individualistic culture is the u. s. a; the culture is all about the individual. An example of the collectivist culture would include asian cultures in where they do what is good for everyone. Scale: strongly agree 7 points; agree 6 points; slightly agree 5 points; neither agree or. Disagree 4 points; slightly disagree points; disagree 2 points.
