PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Individualism, Saka, Imitative Learning
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A behavior can have different meanings in different cultures. This is what cultural psychology is all about. Why study cultural psychology: not an easy question to answer. Because it is depends on how you define it: ex. For example saying that marriage is a formal union is difficult to see: depends on, different types of evidence that suggests a process is universal, accessibility universal, accessible to the same degree across cultures. When a behavior is found in multiple cultures, used in same way across cultures, accessible to the same degree across cultures: ex. Social facilitation: is the finding that individuals do better in easy or well learned tasks when they are in presence of other. Abacus reasoning: calculation tool used in many middle eastern and asian cultures research shows that cultures who use abacus make certain mistakes and do some calculations differently so it is associated with a set of psychological processes. Something about even and odd numbers: nonuniversal.
