PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Dissonance, Satisficing, Hyperbolic Geometry
26 Jan 2014
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If your brain is like a personal computer, then culture is like the internet. Chimp can only do simple request, not complicated as human beings. Our tools are more advanced, but others" aren"t, because they don"t accumulate. Other animals can be social ones, but only human beings are cultural one. Apes can copy but human beings are expected to be taught, teaching is so ingrained for us. Because we don"t know those finding are universal or unique. Every unique social environments are within cultural environment. Wilhem wundt: i can"t understand mind unless we understand culture. Higher-order psychological process need to be studied by considering the culture. Individualism focus more on individual achievement and personal freedom. Sensitive periods: before 15, more able to get used to ca customs. When get to adults, us ones make much more dispositional association, but indian ones make more situational association. Analytic: independent from context and in terms of individual characteristics.
