PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Transcendentalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Study to test this hypothesis: o asked sixth graders to spend 7 minutes describing themselves o on average students wrote 11. 8 statements o the statements referred to recreational activities, attitudes, friends and school activities o their descriptions defined themselves according to how different the were from their classmates o 30% of children who were especially young or old compared with classmates (6 months from the most common age) mentioned their age in their self definition (versus the only 19% of the others did) o 44% of children born outside the usa mentioned this fact (versus only 7% of those born in the usa mentioned this fact) o 26% of children of the minority gender in their class mentioned their gender (versus 11% of the majority gender children) o therefore, in the west, what"s most central to your identity is what makes you distinct.