PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Desirability Bias, Tribalism, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
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It is dynamic embodies in charter of rights and freedoms and dsm these rules change all the time even though cultures change, some things nevertheless stay the same: still some constraints on the degrees of change. Culture as a living thing : biological vs. cultural evolution. A meme is a cultural element (eg. , idea practice) that spreads from person to person. Memes that are successful at spreading and being retained become more common; those that are unsuccessful may cease to exist over time. Cultural and biological evolution travel in similar ways: memes that are used and successful will be more present, cultural elements can be on a decline because they are no longer popular. In a given population, one should see increase proportion of a trait that confers advantages in survival and/or reproduction. Requires three conditions to be present: individual variability within a species for a trait, variable associated with different survival rates, a strait that has a hereditary basis.
