PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Inferior Parietal Lobule, Central Processing Unit, Cultural Psychology
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Cultural psychology: how our experiences shape the way we think and our minds. Micro level: underlying biology/neuroscience of how minds operate. Macro level: how experiences around us shape how our minds operate. How culture can shape our experiences: relative and absolute task. East asians show more activation of these brain regions (i. e. , the left inferior parietal lobule and the right precentral gyrus associated with attentional control) on the absolute task. Americans showed more activation on the relative task. In other words, when people performed the culturally less-familiar task, they showed more evidence for attentional control. Different tasks are associated with increased attentional control across cultures. Absolute task -> focus on the line, think of the line separate from the square. Relative task -> compare line to square, see the line and square as an integrated whole. The brain changes as the result of experiences. Our cultures provide us with distinctive sets of experiences.
