PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ikea, Collectivism, Red Riding
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-cultures continue to evolve; when your parents were your age, they participated in distinct culture from we do today cultures are not monolithic and frozen entities but are fluid and constantly evolving as new ideas emerge and conditions change. -cultures change but can also persist over time, if cultures change over time, then so does psychological processes, these experiences shape our psychology. -many different perspectives have tried to answer the question above to understand cv we will focus on variety of diff. forces that come into play. ----small differences can have large effects: small variations in ecologies can lead to dramatically diff. cultures we look at two types/causes that try and answer how certain historical events took place or rather anything ex. How did pizarro spaniard take over the incan empire even though his army was outnumbered by the incans. -proximal causes: are those that have direct and immediate relations with their effects ex.
