ANTHRO 106 Lecture : anthro notes
31 Mar 2014
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February 27, 2014: psychology, personality, cognition, perception, emotion, learning, mental illness, psychological anthropology: : ways of thinking, knowing, problem solving, and remembering the organization and interpretation of sensory information a feeling state involving physiological, cognitive, and expressive components the development of skills, capabilities, and behaviors maladaptive or dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behaving research into cultural variations in psychological processes most commonly used term for all of those different sorts of natural environment is not just part of the mix, but the: environmental determinism: crucial shaper of culture mix of rank prejudice and actual insight, folk ethnography, national character: nation cultures; usually promoted through radio and television, national culture: cultural schemas that a people have about other cultures; usually some very generalized description of the psychological makeup of an entire shared by most of the people of a nation, overarching their regional where people turn some categories of humans into the other , dehumanizes, othering: certain individuals, groupism: fascination.
