PSY321 1. Intro

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Culture

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Cultural psychology is one area of research in human behavior that examines systematic differences resulting from individuals’ cultural backgrounds.

Culture is information
Culture is a particular group of individuals

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Culture

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To understand the diversity of human psychology through an examination of incredible diversity.

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Culture

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Culture

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Culture as Information

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Thoughts
Values
Traditions
Beliefs

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Culture as Information

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Shared systems of meaning
Jungian Collective Unconsciousness
Difficult to study it in this way

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Culture as Information

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Culture as Information

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Culture as Group of People

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Hence, we study groups of people to get at the underlying differences in information processing.

Informal groups

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Culture as Group of People

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Corporate groups

That is, each group creates their own system of meaning, interaction, and so on and so forth. We can use groups to get at information. For example, here is an image of corporate culture, which can clash with the local culture.

Give google in france example—feedback.

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Culture as Group of People

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Culture as Group of People

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Social, demographic, and civil groups.

Sexual orientations.

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So what is this culture?

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Naturally, what culture is is hard to define. But we know that people start with the same brain, that is located in different parts of the world. And it is very likely that the information that is encoded in this brain has some sort of adaptive values. Thus, we can also think about the culture as an adaptation to the environment. Note also that most of psychological research is largely based in the cross-group comparisons and those groups tend to be defined by the skin color and national borders. Why do you think that is? Why do so few people study culture?

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So what is this culture?

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So what is this culture?

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So what is this culture?

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Languages we speak

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Well, a good guess would be that the culture is in most stark contrast when we study groups. Also, correct that it is defined by language and language can shape our perceptions and cognitions as well as relationships quite a bit.

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Languages we speak

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Languages we speak

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Languages we speak

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Languages we speak

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Question 22

Climate we live in

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It is indeed also is shaped by the climate. The climate generates the scarcity of certain resources and thus creates cultures that surround more valued products.

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Climate we live in

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Climate we live in

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Climate we live in

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Think about water in the desert. Think about the heat and the need for cover. People living in these seemingly extreme to us climates will experience life very differently and may develop different systems.

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Climate we live in

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Places we live in

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Compare it to a number of great cities where we may grow up. The angles and positioning of things will affect how we perceive things. The pace will affect how we prefer processing information. The education will shape our values and manners and affect our relationships.

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Places we live in

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Places we live in

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Agrarian versus nomadic societies. Nomads for example are not especially attached to the land. Why? Because the land does not feed them in the same way as it does agrarian societies. As such, imagine how these people may react to an invasions in the Middle ages—the people simply gave up the land—and shared it. They also did not possess much, which means that there was not much they could offer.

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Places we live in

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Question 31

The way we sleep

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Finally, and as we will discuss in the next lecture, even the very way that we sleep will affect how we grow older and examine our relationships. While in some cultures the contact between parents and children may be encouraged for various interesting reasons, the independence is more prevalent in our contemporary industrialized, western society. Naturally this affect how we relate to others and the norms of communication that we learn.

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The way we sleep

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The way we sleep

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So what?

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Well, we are different and this diversity is beautiful The goal of the course is to understand how we are different as a function of our cultural background and why that might be