UTM115H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4, 6-7: Linguistics, Bit Rate, Generative Grammar
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How we see the environment around us is influenced by our individual psychological perceptions, which, in turn, are shaped by culture. Environmental contexts: natural/physical environment, geographical place, terrestrial location, built. Information rate: amount of information contained or perceived in the environment per some unit of time. High load: uncertain, complex, dense, random, improbable (high info rate) Low load: certain, simple, sparse, patterned (low info rat) Hall"s classification of social distances: intimate distance, personal distance, social-consultative distance, public distance. Online privacy across cultures: gender, individualistic/collectivistic, power distance, education, : time is money, linear, compartmentalized, measurable, discrete, scheduling is paramount, dictates daily activities, limits number of activities, Polychromic (p-time) orientation: schedules less important and frequently broken, people do many things at once, relationships take priority over schedules, tolerant of interruptions. Time orientation influences: scheduling, housing space, business practices. Semifixed-feature space: space bounded by movable objects, such as furniture informal space. Space defined: by the movement of the interactant.
