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Cognitive Theory Cognitive theory is concerned with the development of a person's thought processes. Social and organizational psychologists
Personality Constructs
Comparative studies of the personality traits that were most typical in different nations were central to the analysis of national character. Relationship between Big Five traits and various performance criteria.
Big five traits have also link with national culture. Hofstede and McCrae (2004) found that each of the Big Five dimensions significantly correlated with at least one of the Hofstede dimensions. Cultural value classifications and personality trait models are both based on respondents selfexamination which assumes that people can readily identify their values, motives, or personality traits and can express them.
Cognitive psychologists Culture has impact on the non conscious process. Cultural characteristics of societies are reflected in the psychology of individuals. Social cognitive theory explain how mental representations influence the processing that leads to evaluations of and reactions to people and events. Emotions can be linked to memories and a link of a strong emotion to a memory affects its accessibility.
When rehearsal is repeated again and again the children become cultural expertise which is the outcome of cultural socialization. Cognitive theories of expertise imply that individuals unavoidably develop a special expertise about the culture in which they grow up, expertise that shapes their behavior even more deeply than does their expressed values. Long term memory is structured.
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