Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

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

• Old Business
  
  
  
• 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

   

Sample Exam Questions

How to write an essay exam -- OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)




• Non-Everyday Cognition: Parapsychology includes...
  
  
  • Psychokinesics
    
    
    • "movement from the mind"
      
      
    • aks telekinesis
      
      
      • "distant-movement"
        
        
  • ESP
    • video clip: "ESP"
      (13 min., 1998)
      • Dr. Edwin May, "Remote Viewing" Houston experiment
      • with visual agnosia you have percepts without concepts
      • with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?
        
      • For investigations on Paranormal Phenomena see
        • James Randi Educational Foundation: An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural
          
          
          
• Everyday Cognition
  

 

. 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 . 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 . REM from a few weeks ago?: per-son-ality through - the sound - the essence or quality of Dionysus, Greek Theatrical Mask Cognition = Perception + Conception Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion . . Orientation to Cog-nition: Per-ception and Con-ception Cogito ergo sum "Latin: 'I am thinking, therefore I exist', or traditionally 'I think, therefore I am') is a philosophical statement by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of Western philosophy. 'Cogito ergo sum' is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: 'Je pense, donc je suis', which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637)." René Descartes (1596–1650) "Although the idea expressed in 'cogito ergo sum' is widely attributed to Descartes, many predecessors offer similar arguments—particularly St. Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei (books XI, 26), who also anticipates modern refutations of the concept. (See Principles of Philosophy, §7: 'Ac proinde haec cognitio, ego cogito, ergo sum, est omnium prima et certissima etc.')." -- Wikipedia .   to top of page / A-Z index 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" con-ception con-ceive con-cepts 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 Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9. The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC The Formation of Concepts Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 10.   Species Specific Behavioral Environment (The original B-EYE site seems to be off of the web. An archived site, courtesy of Pandora: Australia's Web Archive, can be found at <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/O1999-Sep-6/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html> Image #1 . / Original of Image #1 . Image #2 . / Original of Image #2 . Image #3 . / Original of Image #3 . Image #4 . / Original of Image #4 . B-EYE -- Andrew Giger Original Site:   Image #1 / Original of Image #1 Image #2 / Original of Image #2 Image #3 / Original of Image #3 Image #4 / Original of Image #4     B-EYE -- Andrew Gige See the World As Your Pets Do. How does your pet experience its environment Understanding some differences between ... facts how animals perceive reallity See World Your Pets ... isn necessarily same what our pets do Here latest ... we may observe our pets shouldn dismissed simply ... animal human senses can offer insight world Sarah Wilson Brian read story (From October 15, 2006 Parade Magazine) Animals Eyes -- An "Topic in Depth" report from the NSDL Scout Report (1 November 2002 -- Volume 1, Number 21) Sex Specific Behavioral Environment Do men and women see color the same way, or are women more sensitive to variation and intensity? —Leo Campbell, Portland, Ore. The only difference is that color blindness affects about 20 times as many males as females. (2 March 2008) Creamer Color Chart -- John Creamer, M.D. RICK SAPHIRE'S TEST Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE) A.I. Hallowell Plato, "Allegory of the Cave"   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

• Great Debates and Controversies in Anthropology:
  
  

  • Margaret Mead -- Derek Freeman

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  Margaret Mead

  Derek Freeman

  
  

  • video: Margaret Mead and Samoa
    (51 min., 1988, VC 1314 )
    
    
  • Mead Freeman Debate -- Cara Fraver
  • Samoan Notes -- Court Smith
  • Is Anthropology a Science? The Mead-Freeman Debate -- Ann Marie Leshkowich
  • Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman . . . and the Samoans -- Stan Strain
  • Much ado about nothing: the 'fateful hoaxing' of Margaret Mead - American anthropologist -- James E. Côté
    • Freeman responds

  • Objectivity in Ethnography -- University of Manitoba
    
    
    
• Rashomon Effect" -- Wikipedia

"The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it."

"It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways. The film is based on two short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke."

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• "Qualitative - Quantitative Mix" -- Pertti J. Pelto
  
  
  

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

per-son-ality


Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

6. Revew of "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982)
   (handout)
   
   
   
7. Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies

Assignments

• Review Materials for Midsemester Exam
  • Sample Exam Questions

• Reading Assignment
  • review materials for midsemester exam

Notes

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

Announcements

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