ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unilineal Evolution, Synesthesia, Cognitive Development
22 Feb 2016
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Anthropologists are interested in the way people learn and make sense of their world chapter 4. Keep in mind the design features of language we learned about in. Perception: the processes by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origin . Cultural synaesthesia: a culturally shared response to a sense other than the one being stimulated. Schemas: patterned, repetitive experiences that are shared and easily understood by members of a particular culture. Prototypes: examples of a typical instance, element, relation, or experience within culturally relevant semantic domain. Illusion: the gap between what we see and what we know. Visuality: the ways that individuals from different societies learn to interpret what they see and to construct mental pictures using the visual practices that their own cultural system favours. Cognition: the mental process by which human beings gain knowledge, and the nexus of relations between the mind at work and the world in which it works .
