What are Core Principles?
Principles are very important as they underpin the entire unit. Go home and ask your parents what core principles they hold as your parents. What are their main beliefs that affect how they behave with you? This will hopefully get you somewhere in terms of understanding of their actions, attitudes and approaches. It's much the same in IB Psychology. Each Approach has a set of Core Principles, almost like a structure that holds up a bridge so traffic can successfully cross.
Principle:
We as humans are social animals and thus have a need to belong.
This suggests that humans will behave in ways that will support beloning; if you think back to much earlier times, it made sense for survival that we exist in packs, learn from each, and protect each other. In this respec, there is an evolutionary aspect to 'belonging'.
This suggests that humans will behave in ways that will support beloning; if you think back to much earlier times, it made sense for survival that we exist in packs, learn from each, and protect each other. In this respec, there is an evolutionary aspect to 'belonging'.
Principle:
Culture influences behaviour.
This seems very obvious. There are many definitions of 'culture' but it is generally what we are surrounded with in terms of norms, rules, and traditions. Culture determines what we interpret as 'normal', and this in turn can govern how we act in individual and social settings.
This seems very obvious. There are many definitions of 'culture' but it is generally what we are surrounded with in terms of norms, rules, and traditions. Culture determines what we interpret as 'normal', and this in turn can govern how we act in individual and social settings.
Principle:
Humans have a social self as well as an individual self.
We are who are in private, but this isn't always consistent with who we are in social settings, meaning when people are around us. How we think affects our internal patterns, and when we are surrounded with context/environment in our social world, these factors can influence the 'self' we hold.
We are who are in private, but this isn't always consistent with who we are in social settings, meaning when people are around us. How we think affects our internal patterns, and when we are surrounded with context/environment in our social world, these factors can influence the 'self' we hold.
Principle:
Peoples' views of the world are resistant to change.
We tend to develop ideas and beliefs and values through different channels - parents, family, friends, role models, media, and so on. Our views of the world are also determined through cultural elements. We tend to admire people who hold firm views - consider if peoples' views were always changing from day to day. How unreliable would that be? This is an interesting principle through which to view stereotypes, also.
We tend to develop ideas and beliefs and values through different channels - parents, family, friends, role models, media, and so on. Our views of the world are also determined through cultural elements. We tend to admire people who hold firm views - consider if peoples' views were always changing from day to day. How unreliable would that be? This is an interesting principle through which to view stereotypes, also.