PSY321H5 Lecture 1: lecture1 - PSY321
Document Summary
Culture influences nervous systems and its products (e. g. , thoughts, behaviors) Nervous system helps people learn and adapt to the environment solving problem. Culture provides the overarching framework for experience. Most research (4%) relies on western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic. Weird countries only make up ~16% of the world"s population. Kalahari san man does not have mueller-lyer illusion. The mind operates under a set of natural and universal laws that are independent from content of context. Information acquired from other members of a species via social learning. A group of individuals who have a shared context and experience. Experience: idea, belief, technology, habit, practice, etc. Challenges in studying culture: fuzzy boundaries, cultural diffusion. Not always clear where one culture ends and another begins. The same cultural elements (ideas, habits, tools, etc. ) can be represented in more than one culture (due to events such as immigration and travelling).
