PSYC 2040 Chapter : Chapter 5
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Behavior: comes from observing other people, norms, rules of society that everyone follows. 5 things that effect our inherence to norms. Reward application: the idea we can succeed by following the norms. Spirituality faith control: everything is up to fate and we have no control over it. Social status: formality to authority cultural, effects norms and behaviors. Individual choices: expressiveness, punctuality, rule breaking, personal space, buffer zone people like to maintain around our bodies, cultural similarity, universal friendship norms, universal dimensions, universal social belief dimension, universal status norms. Incest taboo (i mean really who is okay with this) How males and females alike and dif: gender, characteristics whether biological or socially influenced, by which people define male and female. 77 % of men: men tend to be more autocratic(task oriented, laying down rules); women democratic(asks for opinions, men take more risks, agression, physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.
