PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology, Acculturation, Imitative Learning
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Cartoons depicted muslim prophet muhammad in deliberately offensive ways (bomb in his turban) that lead to huge outrage across the world and even lead to deaths. Western commentators argued that freedom of expression must be treasured and exercised even if doing so means sometimes offending people. Some aspects of culture are shared by other species and some are unique to. For it to become so central it must have had reproductive and survival value. Groups protect against predators and create pools of shared resources, provides greater opportunity for social learning. Cultural psychology is the study of how culture shapes psychological. Our own culture often remains invisible to us. Uncertainty that psychologists of some of their research finding is due to the fact that most psychological phenomena have been studied primarily with university students n north. America and europe, also most findings don"t generalize well across cultures (susceptibility to optical illusions, numerical reasoning)
