Describe the likely difference in conceptions of the self for a child growing up in an independent culture versus one growing up in an interdependent culture.

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The Answer is a. Independent:
i. Culture: Eastern American.
ii. Definition: self as a bounded, unique, integrated motivational/cognitive universe; center of awareness, emotion, judgment, action, organized into a distinctive whole & set.
iii. Internal qualities: fixed/stable from situation to situation.
b. Interdependent:
i. Culture: East Asian, Southern European, Latin American.
ii. Definition: Self as part of encompassing social relationships and adjusting one's behavior to what one perceives to be the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others in the relationship.
iii. Internal qualities: situation-specific and unstable, not defining characteristics of the self.
c. Differences in self-perception, motivation, memory, emotion.

Describe the Likely Difference in Conceptions of the Self for a Child