PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Cultural Psychology, Socalled, Neocortex
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Main thesis of book: people from di erent cultures also di er in their psychology. 1 theme in the book: psychological processes are shaped by experience. 2 things that make up psychological experiences: experiences shape them, they are constrained and a orded by the neurological structures that underlie. 2 meanings of culture: any kind of info that is acquired from other members of a species through social learning that is capable of a ecting behaviors. Culture is any kind of idea, belief, technology, habit, or practice that is acquired through learning from others: a particular group of individuals. Cultures are people who are existing within any kind of shared context. People that attend the same cultural institutions, engage in similar practices or follow similar norms. Culture at the most global level: broad swaths of the earths population. Western culture: people that originate from northwestern europe.
