PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conscientiousness, Essentialism, Factor Analysis
31 Oct 2016
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Psyc 3350 chapter 6: self and personality. Culture is merely providing the content about the ways people think of themselves. Inner attribute about the self that has a number of telling features: relatively abstract, likely experienced as stable, can exist by itself. Degree to which people view themselves in both abstract psychological attributes and concrete roles and relationship varies significantly across cultures. The most popular kinds of self-descriptions for the americans were personal characteristics, such as their traits, attributes, and abilities, accounted for. 48% of their self-descriptions: made up 2% of the masai and samburu self-descriptions. Their roles and memberships accounted for more than 60% of the masai and. Study: for the danish participants, there was little difference in their brain activation patterns when they considered their social roles or their personal characteristics, chinese differed from the danes when they considered their social roles.
