PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Acculturation, Social Learning Theory, Enculturation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Feelings of common membership, purposes, and solidarity. Over 50% of common membership, purpose, solidarity. Lack of trust between adolescents and adults. Less social trust in poor inner-city neighbourhoods. Help teens identify with the common good. Increasing cognitive capacities in adolescence, for example: abstract thinking and self re ection. The transition to adulthood is approaching along with the need to adapt to adult role requirements. Culture: relatively stable system of norms, beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviours that is shared by a group and transmitted across generations. Ethnocentrism: interpreting the world through our own cultures viewpoint without consideration for others. Tendency to see the world for the standpoint of ones own cultural values and assumptions. Consider is dating a normal part of adolescents across all cultures? probably not. Example: shy children are seen in china as well-behaved and potential leaders, in canada they are considered to be impaired and may even be diagnosed with a disorder.