PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Loafing, Jonathan Haidt
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Broadly defined: culture is any kind of information acquired by individuals through. If your brain is like a personal computer, then culture is like the internet. Depends on if you define it in the narrow sense, or a broad sense. But in the broad sense, there are also social animals. Humans are particular skilled at social learning, the ability to learn from others is much more pronounced in humans than any other social animal. High precision culture learning allows humans to accumulate cultural information. We are aware that other people have their own behaviour and intentions. Social animals may figure out good ways of doing things and may copy thing. Cultural animals (humans) deliberately share their knowledge, so that it can be they see another doing. preserved and passed on. Video chimpanzee vs human child learning university of texus.
