PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fundamental Attribution Error
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Behaviour is determined by multiple factors iii: cultural influences. Any kind of information acquired by individuals through imitative or social learning. Yes and no animals have their own culture (apes using tools, bears learning to hunt). Theory of mind- understanding that people have mental states, perspectives, using tools and understanding the goal trying to be achieved. Study of how culture shapes psychological processes (all psychological research is done in a type of culture) Cultural vs. social environments: difficult to leave the culture you grew up in because of its influences on you, how it made you perceive the world (fish recognizing the water it is in, even though it never leaves) Psychological experiences are both similar and different across cultures. The mind cannot exist without culture (and vice versa), they make up one another (relationship/interwoven) and rely on each other to exist. Stress the sense of being part of a collective. The group, rather than the individual, is special.
