PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes -Asian Americans, Construals, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Self concept: cognitive representations of ones own self, that is, the ideas or images that one has about oneself and how and why one behaves. We create self as psychological construct to help understand ourselves and our world better. Concept of self rooted in contextualized beliefs about actions, thoughts, feelings, motives and plans. Cultural practices: refer to discrete, observable, objective, and behavioral aspects of human activities in which people engage related to culture. Parent-child sleeping arrangements are an example of a cultural practice. Management of emotional expression is different in varying cultures. Refers to the doing of culture cultural worldviews: belief systems about one"s culture. Cognitive generalizations about how ones culture is or should be, regardless of whether those generalized things are true or not. Also have long-term memory, hypothetical thinking about future. Uniquely use symbols and verbal language create narratives of our lives and cultures.