Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 1504) - Unit 6 - Discussion post PDF

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Part I – Please educate us about the role of “independence” and “interdependence” in your society and/or cultural psychology. a) How does your society view independence and interdependence? In Indonesia, we have a very diverse society and I will only be talking about a specific society I was part of in Kupang. In this area, this culture is a very close type of society they place a high value in togetherness. Families are mostly all together, and we depend on each other most of the time. The role of independence in my society is when a person goes to college and gets a job or gets married. For women most often they will be dependent on their families most of their life. They will be separated from that family once they get married and will be considered independent. For men, it's to have their own jobs. This pushes women to want to marry as soon as possible to be independent and for men to get a job as soon as possible. But even though the woman has married, and the man has a job already, most are still welcome to still live at their parent's house. This is the interdependence side. All family members are required to help in the house and when asked to help out. They all help each other out whenever possible. Most families would love for their children to be independent in the definition of western society but the culture has a stronghold on them that they must stick to the culture. b) What is the relationship of independence to interdependence (and vice versa)? for this assignment, please speak of your society’s psychology and/or cultural philosophy. Let’s learn from each other’s psychologies! In my culture and society, Our cultural philosophy is that we help each other out at any time. This in-text looks really good. "Wow, they help each other so much" Well this is because of the culture mostly not coming out of their heart. Some circumstances are when we have a funeral or a wedding when the person cannot afford it everyone has to chip in the cost. But at the same time, the party has to be big and they are required to provide expensive meals. Then once the family and friends have paid. It becomes a debt kind of thing. However much you paid, you have to pay back once I or my son gets married. Although there are many benefits of my type of cultural philosophy, there are many ways they can benefit if they dropped some of their ways and added some western cultural phylosophies. Part II - Describe an experience or encounter you have had with the stigma attached to mental disorders* or unusual behavior. Then explain how the situation was addressed. Please explain also how you acted within that situation and how your actions are related to social influence. If you were not satisfied with how things happened, explain how you would address that situation in the future. Okay, no judgment here okay. I have encountered myself with a person with a mental disorder and also birth defects. Because of the rural area in my region, people are still having animist beliefs, such as black magic and all that. They do not have that much knowledge in these fields so they sometimes make rumors of these types of people. Once I have encountered that person, I thought that the person was possessed or he was some type of animal. I ran away. Then once my family went home, they explained to me that the guy was not what I thought he was, he just had that from birth and it was normal.

This was related to social influence as people made scary stories about people with birth defects and mental problems that I thought it was real. I realized that what I did was wrong and that person had to deal with a lot of stress from having people react in a bad way whenever meeting that person. In the future, I will react in a more mature and understanding way so that people are not hurt and that the stigma of the culture will not affect that person....