PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Walter Mischel, Stroop Effect, Linguistic Relativity
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Psyc14: lecture 7 culture and inner processes: cognition and perception + chapter 9. Cognition & perception hardest part of psychological science: we are predisposed to receive cultural inputs from families/environment and our brain will wire itself differently according to where you are brought up. Maybe both: always both, walter mischel lets integrate these 2 views to have more holistic picture of an individual. Famous for marshmallow experiment: person-by-situation interaction theory or behavioural signatures, a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sed (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)s th(cid:396)oughout 2 (cid:373)onths summer camp, there is some stability to our personality yet different situation will elicit different behaviours dispositions + environment. If a peer approaches this child in a certain way the child might be verbally expressive, and that level of verbal aggressiveness will be different when ex. 1: competencies/self regulation, cognitive affective processing system (caps, caus operate within an interconnected network, we cannot attend to every stimuli we all pick up on different stimuli which activate.
