Intro+to+Psych

**Name**: Nicole Catinazzo **Date**: Sept.27,2010

Psychology Period 1

**__Notes on Human Diversity and Psychology __**

**__Directions: __** Read pages 18-21 in your textbook. Use Post-It notes to take notes on what you read and place these within the pages of your book. Write down questions, comments, connections, and any other thoughts you have as you read. See me if you need Post-It notes.

Use the following suggestions to guide you as you interact with the textbook:

** - ****What is culture?** Culture is the accumulation of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religous beliefs, and occupational choices for a group of people who share a common language and enviorment.

** - ****What ways are humans alike?** They tend to live in groups; have religous beliefs; and create rules, music, dances and games.

** - ****What behaviors are shared? By men and women?** People striving for achivemnet, more vaules, styles of communicating, gender, enthicty, social class, and culture.

** - ****What are sociocultural variables?** <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sociocultural variables is a social identity and other background factors, such as gender, enthicity, social class, and culture.

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What roles are played by culture? **

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Culture engcourages and discourages particulkar behaviors and ways of thinging; it also alows people to understand other in that cultiure and to know what to expect from them. <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Comment on the graph at the top of page 20 – compare/contrast individualists and collectivists ** <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Individualists seperate from other, while collectivists tend to connect to other. Individualtis are always self defined and tend to be unique. While the collectivists are defined by other and like to be like opthers. Success comes from personal effort for individualits but for Collectivists sucess is due to help from other and failure is due to personal faults.

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What types of cultural values are shown in the chart at the bottom of page 20? ** **<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Identify 1-10 ** " Shes's got a style of her own" " You, only better" " Amore exhillarting way to provide your family" " We have a way of bringing pepole closer together" " Celebrating a half-century of partnership." " How to protect the most personal part of the enviorment" Your skin" "Our family aggres with this section of hime furnishings" " A leader amoung leaders" " Make your way through the crowd" " Your business sucess" Harmonizing with ( Company name ) "

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What physical gestures are similar around the world? Different? Why? ** Shaking hands when you first meet. Waving hello

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - **<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**What is your culture?**

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">How has your culture shaped who you are today? ** I think everyones culture shapes them into the person they are.

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">** - <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">How does your cultural background influence your behavior? **