PSY 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kaleidoscope, Psych
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Personalities in opposite society seen as weaknesses or rudeness. Only two traits that seem stable over a lifetime---introversion and extroversion. Families can move introverted children towards extroversion but they cannot totally change them. Culture shapes our personalities: collectivist culture the idea of the self is very not central. Parents, authority, siblings, friends, same size or more important than self. Hard in west to grasp concept of self like this. In west self is huge and overtaking and friends, authority, parents etc are much smaller (the social self. : fate, destiny, actions tied to past and present in collectivist societies. Individualistic cultures there is much more internal locust of control because we do(cid:374)"t co(cid:374)sider thi(cid:374)gs as ate. Thi(cid:374)k life is what you (cid:373)ake it, that your choices dictate what happens to you: some religious circles believe in predestination- that life is laid out before you and you cannot change it.
