PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2 Part All: Middle Frontal Gyrus, Reticular Formation, Amygdala
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Chapter 12. 2: cultural and biological approaches to personality. Weird = western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. Universals and differences across cultures: the big five. It is possible that the 5 factor model only accounts for personality in weird populations, and may not extend to the rest of the world. Even though there are differences between cultures, the big 5 factors were reliable in every culture tested by psychologists. The language of the universal 5 factor model test is mainly in english, so there is western culture biases in the personality test. In china they found the big five model to have differences. They had 4 traits instead of 5 . Dependability, social potency, individualism and interpersonal relatedness (which is not found in big. The big 5 captures important and universal dimensions of personality, but also miss important cultural-specific qualities that can only be understood by analyzing personality from that culture(cid:859)s own perspective.
