ANTH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Development, Heteronormativity
6 Feb 2017
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Outline: perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, personality/self/ subjectivity, sex, sexuality, gender roles: the creation of subject positions. Anthropologists are interested in the way people learn and make sense of their world. Keep in mind the design features of language we learned about in chapter 4. Perception: the process by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origin. Cultural synaesthesia: a culturally shared response to a sense other than one being stimulated ex: sounds being associated with colors. Schemas: patterned repetitive experiences that are shared and easily understood by members of a particular culture. (ex: christmas) Prototypes: examples of a typical instance, element, relations or experience within a culturally relevant semantic domain. Illusions: the gap between what we see and know. Visuality: the ways that individuals from different societies learn to interpret what they see and to construct mental pictures using the visual practices that their own cultural system favours.
