PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Temporoparietal Junction, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Inside Out Music
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You write 20 statements that begin with i am _____ . You basically complete the statements in a way that describes who you are. This exercise reveals the extent of culture"s influence on people"s identities in two ways: one rather superficial, and one much deeper. At the superficial level, your self-description might include some culturally shaped statements such as i"m a vancouver canucks fan, . These statements are cultural products in that you can"t be a fan of the vancouver. There is a deeper and more penetrating influence of culture on self-descriptions that is harder to detect. This influence isn"t seen so much in the content of the statements as in their structure. However, the degree to which they view themselves in these two separate ways varies significantly across cultures. Study ! asked kenyans and americans to describe themselves with the twenty-statements. They divided their kenyan sample in terms of how much they were exposed to western cultural ways.
