PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Analytic Reasoning, Cultural Psychology, Spatial Memory
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Information acquired from other members of one"s species through social. Idea, belief, technology, habit, practice acquired through learning from others. Who are existing within some kind of shared context. * information learning that is capable of affecting an individual"s behaviours. Challenges thinking about groups of people as constituting cultures. Exposed to cultural ideas from immigrant parents. Other kinds of groups aside countries (e. g. urban culture, gay culture) * variability among who belong to the same culture. * father of modern incarnation of cultural psychology. * assumes mind operates under a set of natural and universal laws that are independent. Relative length task = more activation in the left inferior parietal lobule and the right precentral gyrus. Regions of brain is associated with attentional control. European-americans required more concentration than absolute length. Absolute length task = more brain region activation (attentional control) Found absolute length judgement especially difficult judgement. * culturally less-familiar task more evidence for attentional control.
