ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cadency, Synesthesia, Enculturation

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: Hugode Burgo

Document Summary

Learning is socially and culturally shaped by differenced in status and experiences. The process by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origin. Schemas: patterned, repetitive experiences that are shared and easily understood by members of a particular culture. Ex) christmas schema: snow, decorations, baking, carols, tree, gifts. Richard gregory: argued that visual illusions are produced when the wrong cognitive processes are selected and applied to a particular set of visual signs. Perceptions are symbolic representations of reality, not direct samples of reality. Perceivers must work hard to makes sense of the visual signals they receive. When they are wrong they are subject to illusion. Distortion: when something appears a different size than what it actually is. The wats people interpreted drawings depends on pre-existing and cultural conventions. Looking and seeing are culturally learned modes of sensory perception.