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Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

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Magic Eye©
Science, Optics

 
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main concepts

Mustard seed.
Babel Fish Translation
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Wednesday 27 February 2008

Week 06 Day 11

video clip: "ESP"
(13 min., 1998)

 

Announcements

  • The midsemester exam will be on Day 13, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 rather than on Day 12, Monday, 3 March 2008
 

Features of the Day

video clip: "ESP"
(13 min., 1998)

 

  • Questions about the Midsemester Examination?

    The midsemester exam will be on Day 13, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 rather than on Day 12, Monday, 3 March 2008

     

Blue book for exams.

 

"Last night I dreamed I was a butterfly.

How do I know that I am not a butterfly now dreaming I'm a man?"

"Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi. Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things." -- (2, tr. Burton Watson 1968:49)

[From The Taoist book "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly" (莊周夢蝶 Zhuāng Zhōu mèng dié) -- Wikipedia]

莊子
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
(4th Century B.C./B.C.E.)

"Zhuangzi's philosophy was very influential in the development of Chinese Buddhism, especially Chán (also known as Zen)."

 

Cognition = Perception + Conception

Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)
[From NOVA ]

Book: The Man who Mistook His Wifefor a Hat, by Oliver Sacks.

Cognition = Perception + Conception

cognition perception sensory vision "per-cepts"
hearing
touch
taste
smell
extra - sensory
(ESP)
6th ?
"?"
conception

"con-cepts"


Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.


 

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A tiny little wee abridged short synoptic précis introduction to
(or, a sneak preview of coming attractions of the middle third of the semester . . .)

Perceptual and Conceptual Cognitive Processes

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Per-cept--ual and Con-cept--ual Cog-ni[to]--tive Processes

Percept--ual and Concept--ual Cogni--tive Processes

REM: Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

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REM from a few weeks ago?:

per-son-ality
through - the sound - the essence or quality of

Greek Theatrical Mask -- Dionysus.
Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

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      Questions...

    • How do you think?

    • What role does culture and learning play?

    • More specifically, what role does language play?

    • "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes":

      • perception

        • ([late ME < L perceptiôn- (s. of perceptiô) comprehension, lit., a taking in]

      • perceive

        • ([ME perceive(n) . . . per- PER- + -cipere, comb. form of capere to take]

          • re-ceive

          • re-cept-or

      • percepts

    • "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes"

cognition perception sensory vision "per-cepts"
hearing
touch
taste
smell
extra - sensory
(ESP)
6th ?
"?"
conception

"con-cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

Percepts

Spradley's diagram of percepts.

Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9.

Visual cortext.
The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC

The Formation of Concepts

Spradley's diagram of concepts.

Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 10.

 

 

Pheew!

 

 

 

Old Business

  • Controversies and Personalities and Schools of Thought

    • Freelisting Exercise: List the factors involved in the Mead - Freeman controversy

    • Discussion of the Mead - Freeman controversy
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    • "Qualitative - Quantitative Mix" -- Pertti J. Pelto


  1. Review of "Basic Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations" (after LeVine 1982)
    (handout)

per-son-ality

Greek Theatrical Mask -- Dionysus.
Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask



  1. Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies
 

Assignments

  • Reading Assignment
    • review materials for midsemester exam
 

Notes

  • Wednesday 27 February 2008: Ended with first section, "with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?"

Optical illusion stress test.

Stress Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

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Monday 03 March 2008

Week 06 Day 12

 

Announcements

  • The midsemester exam will be on Day 13, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 rather than on Day 12, Monday, 3 March 2008

  • Good Luck!