AN101 Lecture Notes - Giriama People, Hunnan District, Mbuti People
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Like language, human psychology is an open system: what we think or feel about something depends greatly on what we have learned to pay attention to and the values we have learned in our society. Different groups with different histories and experiences are likely to develop unique points of view, pay attention to different things, and feel differently about them. The processes by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origin. Perception does not occur in a culture-free vacuum. Culture provides patterns for perception, proper labeling and responses for it. (textbook, pp. Non-literate south african were tested on two-dimensional drawings representing three- dimensional objects: they interpreted the drawing in two dimensions. This does not mean they were unable to produce three dimensional models (textbook, p. 101) The non-literate south african were not aware of western conventions for interpreting two- dimensional drawings.
