PSYCO341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Trait Theory, Ethnocentrism, Cognitive Revolution
1 May 2014
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Even though human lack the adaptation ability to different environment, but we still thrive in many because we humans have culture. The main thesis of this book is that people from different cultures also differ in their psychology (that is the way they think). Psychological process is shaped by experiences and different people from different cultures have different experiences, thus, they differ in the way they think. Note that experience shape them but do not determine them as psychological process are constrained and afforded by the neurological structure the underlie them. Some focus on symbolic aspects, some physical artifacts of cultures, other emphasizes the habits that are contained in the culture. In this book, culture refers to two different things. This information is the one that is acquired (religion, ideas, beliefs, technology, habits, and practices) from others members of one"s species through social and learning that is capable of affecting individual behaviors.
