PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prefrontal Cortex, Acculturation, Burke And Wills Expedition
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Psyc14 - lecture 01 -interweaving psychology and culture. Include a group"s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values and movies: meanings are learned and perpetuated in society via through institution. Irrational: sum of learned behaviour of a group of people, generally considered to be tradition of that people and transmitted from generation to generation, collective programming of mind, distinguishing members of one group members from another. Spices, certain regions in the world, because it"s hotter, there"s higher prevalence of pathogens, so there would be greater amount of spices since they kill pathogens: environmental changes may lead to changes in cultures, e. g. When child mortality rates were higher back in the day, people would have more children to carry on the work that are to be done: e. g. Technology new ecology and would affect our response to this new environment and is going to dictate what our culture looks like and who we are as humans.
