PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Acculturation

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People"s brain function the same around the world, so we don"t have to question how well fundamental neuronal processes generalize. In the case of higher order psychological processes, in which social interactions play a key role, it is less clear how these processes will emerge across cultures. The muller-lyer illusion: carpentered corners, the line on the left (indented wall) looks longer because the angles at the corners suggest that it is further away than the line on the right. People who are raised in cultures where there are not carpentered corners are not susceptible to this illusion. Field emerged for two reasons: culture plays a prominent role in our mental lives, to see if behaviors and mental processes are the same in all cultures. Two key themes in cultural psychology: how do people sense self related to others - which can give rise to the way of, universal and culturally specific psychologies exist thinking.

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