PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Infant Mortality, General Idea, Doctor Fish
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Is cultivated behaviour: the totality of a person"s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, symbolic communication, some of its symbol include a group skill, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. But now the lake is destroyed by human activities. She is pointing to the statue of liberty. Definition of culture: culture emerges in adaptive interactions between humans and environments, culture consists of shared elements btw group of ppl, culture is transmitted across time. Limited access to a wide range of cultures: most of them are usually undergraduate, psych students, middle class. Lost in translation how might one measure concepts & models in a standardized way: measure would be diff in both culture so it"s difficult to make comparison. Hazel marcus: cultural researcher at the university of michigan wondered why japanese students with a good command of english, said nothing no questions, no comments during lecture, hazel thinks questioning means you are thinking.
