PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oryza Sativa, Cultural Psychology, Flynn Effect

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Richard N Lalonde

Document Summary

Isolate behaviour from its content and context ( to reduce the noise) Avoid studying multiple cultures as this increases the amount of noise. Mind cannot be separated from the content and context. Culture arises from the participation of the minds within it. Prestige: cue used to determine who to learn form and copy. 1- language: allows for communication of complex ideas. 2- theory of mind (tom)- ability to understand that others have minds,intentions and pe(cid:396)spe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t f(cid:396)o(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) ** humans social learning= imitative (internalize goals and behavioural strategies) ** chimpanzees social learning= emulative (focus on environmental events and not (cid:373)odel"s goals a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)al st(cid:396)ategies(cid:895) Humans used the rake in the same way that the target used it. While the chimpanzees used the rake in the teeth up position ( regardless of how they watched the target use it) ** less genetic variability among different populations of humans than chimpanzees**