PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Acculturation, Cerebral Cortex, Culture Shock

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Ch16 cultural psychology incomplete page 728. Information transmitted through learning: imitative or social learning. Shared and unique aspects of culture: cultural learning in other species, human cultural learning. The study of how culture shapes psychological processes: interaction between people and information, individuality and belongingness. Universal behaviors, reactions, and institutions: sex, gender, and the family, social differentiation, social customs, emotion, cognition. Culture and mind are inextricably bound: interaction of the mind and the individual. Acculturation requires significant adjustment: acculturation the process of adaptation to a culture different from one"s own. U-shaped curve in psychology, a pattern of acculturation, characterized by three phases: the. Culture shock (crisis) stage the feelings of anxiety, estrangement, helplessness, and incongruousness with one"s surroundings that often follow emigration to a new cultural environment. Cultures differ in analytic and holistic thinking: ratio of cerebral cortex to brain volume. Development of tools: universal and culturally specific psychologies, generalizability of research findings, language development, acculturation.