PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inferior Parietal Lobule, Bsc Young Boys, Cultural Psychology
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Main thesis of book: people from different cultures also differ in their psychology. Themes: psychological processes are shaped by experiences. Psychological processes constrained and afforded by neurological structures. Brain is identical in structure people from all cultures share some constraints and affordances of the universal human brain. To what extent should ways of thinking look similar or different around the world b/c we share universal brain: tension b/w universal and culturally variable psychologies. Definition debated among anthropologist, sociologist, and psychologist. No single consensual answer that applies to all fields, can focus on: symbolic aspects of culture, physical artifacts of culture, habits that are contained in culture. Book definition of culture: any kind of information that is acquired from other members of one"s species through social learning that is capable of affecting an individual"s behaviors. Any kind of idea, belief, technology, habit, or practice acquired through learning from others: people who are existing within some kind of shared context.
