04:192:200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Episodic Memory, Advantageous, Clifford Geertz
30 Oct 2014
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Students learning and experiencing the feelings of discrimination. Visual aspects of people defining their intelligence: arbitrary connection. Salience (a pronounced feature or part; a highlight. ) Players on a team would view their teammates as high-spirited once they won a game, yet the opposing team would view them as morons. Assume that the person seeing it sees what is disadvantageous to them, advantageous to the other. Same scene can look different, depending on who is interpreting. Semantic memory- general knowledge about people, places, and things. Aspects of our daily lives that link and give common significance to a particular group of people at a particular time. Clifford geertz we"re suspended in webs of significance that we ourselves have spun . Culture is produced through communication- we do culture. Complex and multifaceted: high and low context cultures. High context- most information is in people rather than explicitly in messages. Monochronic- do one thing at a time.
