PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Linguistic Relativity, Big Five Personality Traits, Acculturation
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What is cultural personality psychology? cultural variations- within group similarities & between group differences of any sort- physical, psychological, behavioural, attitudinal cultural personality psychology has 3 key goals: 3) to discover the principles underlying the cultural diversity to discover how human psychology shapes culture to discover how cultural understandings in turn shape our psychology. Ingredients necessary to explain cultural variations: 1) a universal underlying mechanism & 2) environmental differences in the degree to which the underlying mechanism is activated. Emphasize fundamental interconnectedness among those within the group. Self is meaningful only with reference to the larger group. Major cultural tasks in these cultures are to fit in & to promote harmony & group unity. Chinese tend to describe themselves using social roles acculturation-process of adapting to the ways of life in one"s new culture these cultural differences may be linked to ways in which people process info.
