ANTH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Syllogism, Enculturation, Chromosome
6 Feb 2017
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Perception: the process by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origins. Cultural synaesthesia: a cultural shared response to a sense other than the one being stimulated (hearing a sound and seeing it as a colour) Schemas: patterned repetitive experiences that are shared and easily understood by members of a particular culture. ex: christmas festivities that may not be directly related to the holiday of christmas. Prototypes: examples of a typical instance, element, relation or experience within a culture. Ex: walking into a library with more dvd"s than books would confuse the prototype that is a library. Cognition: the mental process by which human beings gain knowledge and the nexus of relations between the mind at work and the world in which it works. Taxonomies: hierarchal systems that sort groups of things that share at least one quality (ex: dogs) into subgroups that share a greater number of qualities (ex: poodles, collies, boxers)
