PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Color Blindness, Ethnocentrism, Wilhelm Wundt
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Culture (2) people who are existing within some kind of shared context. Culture (1) any kind of information that"s acquired from other members of one"s species through social learning that"s capable of affecting an individual"s behaviours. Fluid nature of cultural boundaries weakens researchers" abilities to find: cultures aren"t static entities but are dynamic and ever changing. Cultural membership doesn"t determine individual responses differences between cultures, but when such differences are found, they provide powerful evidence that cultures do differ in their psychological tendencies. We can learn about how the mind works by identifying the universal and. The ways that people think about status, laws, etc. , are influenced by the very invariant ways that it operates. Cultural meanings are entangled with the ways that the mind operates, and. Figure-line task study parietal lobule and the right precentral gyrus than they did when the completed the absolute length task. Posterior region of the hippocampus facilitates spatial memory in navigation.