PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Carol Dweck, Trait Theory, Consistency
11 Apr 2014
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Chapter 17: what you know about you: the self. William james (1890): i and me; the me is a sort of object, which can be observed and described. The i is the mysterious entity" that does the observing and describing. How you feel deep down about knowing you are friendly i (homunculus, soul, etc), experiences your life, makes decisions, etc. Individualistic cultures assume that the self has an independent and separate existence. Collectivistic cultures view it as embedded in a larger social context of obligations and relationships. One perspective: the self is a western cultural artefact that has no meaning in other cultures. Second, less extreme approach addresses the way the self and its implications differ across cultural contexts. One study: indians use examples to describe someone (she brings cake on peoples" birthdays), 50% of terms used by americans were personality traits, only 20% of the terms indians used.
