PSYC14H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Comparison Theory, Cortisol, Terror Management Theory
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Central topic is cultural code frame switching. Self-enhancement is a universal process, but that people of different cultures do it in different ways. Cultural practices: discrete, observable, objective, and behavioural aspects of human activities (eg parent child sleeping patterns) Cultural worldviews: belief systems about one"s culture; cognitive generalizations about how one"s culture should be regardless of reality of those images. Concepts of self are social constructions that consists of viewing self as living up to specific contingencies that are derived from culture but are integrated into a unique individualized worldview. Independent construal of self: individuals focus on personal attributes and express them in public while privately confirming them through social comparison. Fundamental connectedness of human beings: fit in and maintain interdependence among individuals; prominent in collectivist cultures. Asians find it difficult to describe themselves in terms of abstract internal attributes (eg hard to say i"m sociable" without providing context)
