PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Acculturation, Individualism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Is culture unique to humans: yes and no, depends on the definition, animals will learn through imitative learning baby bear learning to hunt from the mama bear, significance of cultural information, humans are particularly skilled at social learning: Chimpanzee vs. human learning video: using a puzzle box to get a treated, human teaching a chimp through showing, copies well and get the treat, the children copy the actions like the chimps did, the second box is see through with a fake ceiling, chimps understand cause and effect, the children were redisposed to copy. Not unique to humans: cultural animals: (humans) deliberately share their knowledge, so that it can be preserved and passed on, cultural psychology, cultural psychology is the study of how culture shapes psychological processes. Sleep: difference is sleeping arrangement, people sleep at night, biologically universal, culture and the mind, can not separate the mind and culture.