PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Endogamy, Feudalism, Robin Dunbar

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

Document Summary

Challenges to defining culture: cultures are dynamic; they change with time, cultural boundaries are not clear cut and often unclear. Language & customs) have an effect on mental processes. Luria, vygotsky, and others recognized that people environment interactions are done using tools or cultural ideas that accumulate over the span of history. Interest in cultural influences on mental processes waxed and waned after 1930s. 1980s to 90s berry, shweder, markus, kitayama, triandis and others : monumental contributions to the field: cultural psychology established itself as separate discipline within mainstream psychology. General vs cultural: a key goal of general psych is to reveal the underlying and universal cpu, isolate beh. Cultural universal vs variable: mathematical reasoning, universal: the number 2 , variable: numbers beyond 3 . Cultural psych: color words, universal: black, variable: green, norms, universal: smiling when happy, variable: biting tongue when embarrassed. Universals & cultural relativism: accessibility universal: accessible to same degree across cultures (ex.