PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Collectivism, Bride Kidnapping, Cultural Relativism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Goal 1: preserve and enhance intrinsic motivation. Goal 2: teach kids what"s healthy and safe but also their culture/background. How do you get kids to care about things that you feel are important (e. g. religion) help the child internalizing these values. Lots of groups identified with it b/c it"s a universal issue of integrating different cultures. Can be difficult for parents of immigrant children to teach kids traditional cultural values especially in a less traditional country that might not focus as much on things like humility (north america) Research has shown that it"s important to internalize and integrate values of both cultures (rather than just adapting to new culture) His parents wanted him to go to german school, play accordion, do typical. Got away with it b/c america pushed assimilation and his mother assimilated. Parents present child with b etc. and child takes it in and it becomes their own values.