[PSYC14H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (30 pages long!)
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Other species don"t share this because we can communicate in. Individualism / collectivism different ways with a lot of things and other species can"t. Magic number 150 refers to the amount of people you can keep a stable social relationship with: the individual knows each person and they know how they know this person. Behaviours are innate and are passed from one person to another. Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behaviour; that is the totality of a person"s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted. Some of its symbols include a group"s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions. Culture is the sum of the learned behaviour of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation.
