PSY321H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Michael Tomasello, Ecological Systems Theory, Margaret Mead
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Humans can get into another person"s mind, see things from that person"s point of view, understand the intentions of that person, and understand that the person understands our own intentions too. Cultural learning isn"t only learning from others but through others. Michael tomasello studied chimps/orangutan"s and 2yo child: child was more sophisticated, understood intentionality, social learning, and social communication on a much deeper level than the apes. B/c humans are intrinsically able to learn from one another and collaborate together as a group on a much more complex and larger scale than all other animals, only humans are capable to creating culture. Bronfenbrenner"s ecological systems theory of human development (page 66: microsystem immediate surroundings. Family, school, peer group: mesosystem linkages b/w microsystems. B/w family and school: exosystem context that indirectly affects children. Culture, religion, society: chronosystem influence of time and history on the other systems.
