PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Nim Chimpsky, Cultural Psychology, Social Loafing
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Broadly defined culture is any kind of information acquired by individuals through imitative or social learning. If your brain is like a personal internet, then culture is like the internet . Yes and no because if we use the definition d"au dessus, then animals do have a culture (learning from mother and applying what she does) Humans are particularly skilled at social learning: Sophisticated communication skills (compared to other species: eg: nim chimpsky (chimpanzee) that tried to learn english but only used it to eask for more food. High precision cultural learning allows humans to accumulate cultural information. Social animals (not only humans) may figure out good ways of doing things and may copy something they see another doing. Cultural animals (humans only) deliberately share their knowledge, so that it can be preserved and passed on. Cultural psychology is the study of how culture shapes psychological processes. Psychological experiences are both similar and different across cultures.
