PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Cerebral Cortex, Acculturation, Wilhelm Wundt
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Culture: any kind of information acquired by individuals through imitative or social learning. Humans are not unique in being able to learn cultural information, but we do it better. Many aspects of human culture are learned by virtually every culture member, often than other species after a single trial. Culture must have been adaptive for our human ancestors survival and reproductive. Cultural psychology is the study of how culture shapes psychological processes. Humans in all cultures normally are born with the same basic potentials. Marriage is universal but martial practices differ greatly (monogamy, polyandry, polygamy, homosexual) Cultures emerge from the interaction of the minds of people that live with them shape the kinds of things that those minds think about: cultures influence the ways that minds process info, ex. North american schools focus on student"s personal needs vs japanese school that focus on social promotion .
