PSYC14H3 Lecture 2: lecture 2 and 4
Document Summary
Quality of life is how happy you are. For farmer communities there was status and there was a frame of reference and people were able to compare their lives to others where as hunter gatherers everyone had the same lot and had the same. Homo habilis used a rock as a tool instead of a stick. Homo erectus first species able to use and control fire. Homo sapiens with the big frontal lobe, art, culture and religion. Communicating ideas faster, acceleration of cultural change, loss of culture because were more isolated and independent than before, we rely on technology more than people. Resource mobility: when you can move your resourses, Cultural isolation: the less exposure a culture they have, the more they have a tightly held standard of social norms. Activity interdependence: where ur thinking of other peole and communal needs.
