PSYC 3350 Study Guide - Final Guide: High-Context And Low-Context Cultures, Hackney Carriage, Spatial Memory
15 Sep 2016
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Psychological processes are shaped by experiences, yet experiences do not determine psychological processes. Since humans around the world share the same constrains and affordances of the human brain, it is challenging to make sense of the cross-cultural studies. What is culture: culture is two different things. Information: any kind of information that is acquired from other members of one"s species through social learning that is capable of affecting an individuals behaviour (belief, tech, habit) Group of individuals: people who exist within some kind of shared context. Exposed to many different cultural ideas (geo, hist, lang: challenges of classifying culture. Culture changes over time, some info disappears when new habits replace old. Psychological processes can vary across cultures: what people find funny can vary across cultures. Guides greatest television show of all time was not popular in germany: many basic psychological processes such as the way we perceive the world, value a sense right and wrong can vary in cultures.
