PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Imitative Learning, Robin Dunbar, Neocortex

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Richard N Lalonde

Document Summary

Kind of idea, belief, technology, habit or practice that is acquired from living in a particular social environment. It is shared and associated with a group of people who have a shared social context: geography, history, language. Culture is dynamic: cultures change, people in certain environments change. Cultural boundaries are not clear-cut and often unclear. Within-culture variation exists just as much between-culture variation exists. 1921; whilhelm wundt"s volkerpsychologie: cultural products (language and customs) have an effect on mental processes. 1920"s; russian cultural-historical school: recognized that people environment interactions are done using tools or cultural ideas that accumulate over the span of history interest in cultural influences on mental processes waxed and waned after 1930s. 1980s to 1990s; shwederm, markus: monumental contributions to the field: cultural psychology establishes itself as separate discipline within mainstream psychology. Cultural: the mind can"t be separated from content or context: mind arises from participating in culture, culture arises from participation of the minds within it.