Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Agency

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Ability to make choices through your own actions

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Articulated Style

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Field-Independent way of viewing the world that breaks it up into small pieces

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Cognition

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Mental process by which human beings gain knowledge

Nexus relations between the mind at work and the world in which it works

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Cognitive Style

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Recurring patterns of cognitive activity that characterize an individual’s perceptual and intellectual activies

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Cultural Synaesthesia

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Culturally shared response to a sense other than the one being stimulated

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Elementary Cognitive Processes

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Mental tasks common to all humans without intellectual cognitive impairment

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Emotion

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The product of entanglements connecting bodily arousal and cognitive interpretation

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Enculturation

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Small culture in big culture, and big culture copes with the way small culture lives

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Functional Cognitive Systems

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Sets of cognitive processes that guide perception, conception, reason, and emotion

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Gender

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Cultural beliefs and behaviours considered appropriate for each sex

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Heteronormativity

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Culture pretty much being bias against homosexuality

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Motivation

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Inner impulse to set and accomplish goals

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Naturalizing Discourse

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Representation of particular identities as if they were a result of biology nature rather than history or culture, making them appear external and unchanging

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Norms

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Rules of behaviour assumed to be typical within a specific social or cultural group

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Perception

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How sensory info is organized

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Personality

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Way a person acts within a sociocultural matrix

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Prototypes

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Examples of a typical instance element, relation, or experience within a culture

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Reasoning Style

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Culture and context dependent ways in which we appraise, come to understand and think about a cognitive task

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Schemas

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Patterned, repetitive experiences that are shared and easily understood by members of a particular culture

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Self

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The result of the process of socialization and enculturation for an individual

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Sex

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Morphological differences between males and females

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Sexuality

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What kind of people a person is interested in

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Socialization

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Process by which human beings learnt to become members of a group, by interacting appropriately with others and by coping with the behavioural rules established by the group

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Social Trauma

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Individual and group experience of negative physical, mental, and emotional effects resulting from powerfully disturbing things caused by forces and agents external to the person or group

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Structural Violence
War.
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Syllogism
Series of 3 statements on which the final statement must follow logically from the first 2 statements
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Syllogistic Reasoning
Form of reasoning based on the syllogism
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Taxonomies
Hierarcical systems that sort groups of things that share at least one quality into subgroups that share a greater number of qualities
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Thinking
The active cognitive process of "going beyond the information given"
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Visuality
Ways that people from different societies learn to interpret what they see and to construct pictures using the visual practices that their own cultural system favours
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Zone of Proximal Development
Difference between what someone can achieve on their own and under the guidance of more experiences individuals
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Stimulants
Increase nervous system activity and give a person pleasurable experiences by making them more alert and quickening their energy levels and mental processes