PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Social Comparison Theory, Royal Victorian Order, Cultural Psychology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

We start with universals, such as the needs for belonging, meaning, autonomy/freedom, competence/control, emotional security. Cultures provide general frameworks of meaning, shared understandings, myths, stories all of which guide our thinking an provide an interpretive frame to help us make sense of our experiences. It"s not that different from a collective mind. And just like mind is an adaptive organism, seeking to fit the organism to its circumstances, cultural trends arise for good reason, and much can be learned but taking a functionalist approach to the study of culture. Just as animals adapt to their ecological niches. How the us south and west are more violent than the east and north. Archival data: more argument related murders in southern us, especially in hills and dry plains compared to moist plain areas. Hawkish international policy, right to bear arms, capital punishment . In na, the emergence of the self is universally accompanied by insanity!