PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Co-Op Food, Personality Psychology, Cultural Universal
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Cultural variations: within-group similarities and between group differences of any sort. Physical, psychological, behavioural or attitudinal: e. g. eating beef in india is a violation but not in america, describes the phenomenon but does not explain what caused it or why. Cultural personality psychology: has 3 goals. Discover the principles underlying the cultural diversity. Discover how cultural understandings in turn shape our psychology. There are 3 major approaches to explaining and exploring personality across cultures: evoked culture, transmitted culture, cultural universals. This is defined as cultural differences created by differing environmental conditions activating a predictable set of responses. 2 ingredients are required to explain cultural variations: a universal underlying mechanism, environmental differences in the degree to which the underlying mechanism is activated. Evoked cooperation: high variance conditions tremendous benefits to sharing. Cooperative food sharing increases in this situation. Degree of egalitarianism is closely correlated with the variance in food supply. Environmental conditions can activate some behaviours such as cooperation and sharing.
