Process Of Enculturation Flashcards
Personality
The fairly stable pattern of thought, feeling, and action associated with a specific person.
How is culture within non human animals?
There is no cumulative growth
What is the most important form of symbolic communication?
Language
psychological anthropology
a study that observes people and the process of enculturation in many different types of societies.
what is culture?
Things that are learned, shared, and transmitted.
Cognitive Anthropology
The study of cognition and cultural meanings through specific methodologies such as psychological experiments, computer modeling, and other techniques to elicit underlying unconscious factors that structure human-like thinking processes.
Culture Transmission
The process of passing on culturally relevant knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values from person to person or from culture to culture.
Drives
Basic biological urges within humans such as hunger, thirst, and sex which are vital to the survival of the species.
Enculturation
The process of social interaction through which people learn and acquire their culture.
T or F?
The human capacity for culture is not a biological adaptation.
False.
the capacity for culture is a biological adaptation.
Ego
The conscious attempt to balance the innate pleasure-seeking drives of the human organism with the demands and realities of the society.
Superego
based on the internalized values and norms of the society, which create the individual’s conscience.
narratives
Stories or events that are represented within specific cultures.
Evolutionary Psychology
Study of how the human brain has developed and how it influences the way we think.
