PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Descriptive Knowledge, Consistency, Procedural Knowledge

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Chapter 17: what you know about you the self. Researchers asked american and hindu indian informants to describe people they knew. Americans use personality traits while indians used complex and conceptualized phrases. Americans and hindu indians think of people in different ways, and this includes how they think about themselves. 20% of indians description of people were personality-trait terms which shows that the idea of individual traits is not foreign to them. Members of different cultures do vary in their ways of describing people. Study how the nature of the self and its implications differ across cultures. Assumes that the western self is a relatively separate entity while the. Eastern self is more integrated into the social and cultural context. The individualist"s need for positive self-regard may be felt less acutely by a member of a collectivist culture. The individualist view of the self assumes that the cause of behaviour lies within the person.

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