PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Individualism, Collectivism, Pedophilia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Social customs (e. g. interacting with authority figures, the role of family) Cooperation (day to day interaction round same age) The attitudes and standards of behaviour expected of members of particular group. Speech and gestures (accents, slang, and greetings) Selection effects (select your friends because you smoke, choose friend who happen to like what you liked) Culture influences (guided by norms: the behaviours, idea, attitudes, values, traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Mores: norms that are widely observed and great moral significance (right and wrong) Folkways: norms for routine and casual interactions (right and rude) Greetings, gesture, personal space, eye contact, appropriate dress, dinner etiquettes, busy sidewalk, ceremonies. The self: the sum total of an individual beliefs about his or her own person attributes and relationships. 2 general personal aspects: personality traits accomplishments, abilities.