PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Acculturation, Stereotype Threat, Cerebral Cortex
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Culture refers to the beliefs, values, rules, and customs of a group of people who share a language and environment which are transmitted through learning from one generation to another. Psychologists also define culture more broadly, and this chapter uses this more expansive definition. Culture is any kind of information acquired by individuals through imitative or social learning. Culture is shared by other species and some is unqiue to. Research has found evidence for cultural learning in other species (ex: monkey washing potatoes and other monkeys imitated the action) Nonprimate species like dolphins have demonstrated cultural learning when using distinctive sound for each other like humans use names. Humans do culture better than any other species. Pigeons and octopuses have shown limited evidence of learning from others within the species. In contrast, many aspects of human culture are learned by virtually every culture member, often after a single trial.
