• Question: "What do I already know about Culture and Personality?"
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• What would you like to know about your profs?

• What do you expect to get out of this class?

• Overview / Orientation of course WorldWide Web HomePages:
  
  
  1. Welcome Page
  2. Summer Session 2006 Calendar
  3. Syllabus
  4. Special Facilities
  5. Office Hours
  6. Textbook
     • "Table of Contents"
  7. Course Requirements Summary
  8. Reading Assignments Summary
  9. Daily Class Schedule : Day 01 -- Day 02 -- Day 03 . . . .
     
     
• nlt 02:00 Video: Personality: All About Me
  (60 min., 2003, DVD 206)

Great Pyrenean Mountain Dog

What's your personality type?
Find out with the "What Am I Like?" personality test. -- BBC

Other Personality Tests [for fun]

• Reading Assignment
  
  
  • All readings are from the textbook: Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross-Culutural Psychology, Second Edition, by Marshall H. Segall, Pierre R. Dasen, John W. Berry, and Ype H. Portinga (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999)
    
    
  • You should usually read the assignments prior to consideration of their related topics in class
    
    
  • if you have read the texts prior to presentation of the materials in class, you will more easily keep track of what is going on
    
    
  • If you have any difficulty with either the terms or with any of the various topics, stop by my office (215 Cina Hall) and I'll go over the materials with you
    
    
    • however, please do not wait day before the quiz or exam
      
      
  • Read "Preface," pp. ix-xi
    
    
  • Read Ch. 1, "The Sociocultural Nature of Human Beings," pp. 1-24