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Culture and Personality

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Magic Eye©
Science, Optics

 
   
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Wednesday 4 March 2009

Week 07 Day 13

 

Announcements

 

Features of the Day

 

Return Midsemester Exams

If you took the exam on-line your exam is back in your
WebDrop folder
with comments
at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

 

Your grade-to-date and full information on your overall work is available 24/7/365 in your
eGradebook file
at <http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook>

 

If you have any
questions
please stop in (Cina 214),
SMS/text message at 218.260.3032,
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grading

criteria for grading written works

UMD Grading Policies

proofreader's marks

The "Strike Zone "

The Strike Zone in Baseball

© Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.

"The Curve"


  A = 93.0%   A- = 90.0%
B+ = 87.0%     B = 83.0%     B- = 80.0%
C+ = 77.0%   C = 73.0%   C- = 70.0%
D+ = 67.0%   D = 63.0%   F   = below 60.0%


400.0 points possible
 
   
"Range"
175.0
Mean = 338.2
"average"

Median = 348.0
   
S.D. = 
44.5
"standard deviation"
 
  Low = 225.0 
High = 400.0


Standard deviation diagram.
"standard deviation"
Wikipedia
 

 

Note: if you took or will take a makeup exam, it may take several days for you to get your exam back

Abstracts

Check:

for your research papers try the
UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources > Assignment Calculator
<http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/>

Assignment Calculator available online from the UMD Library.

Term Paper is due by Friday, 30 April 2010, 11:59 p.m.,
( from today)

Paper is due to WebDrop
at
<https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

 

Old Business

Controversies and Personalities

  • 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

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?:

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"

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

 

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.

The Formation of 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.

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.

 

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>

Views of a butterfly through a cat's and a human eye.


Sex Specific
Behavioral Environment

    Ask Marilyn banner.

    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)


    Color vision test chart, black and white.

    Color vision test chart, color.
    RICK SAPHIRE'S TEST

Culturally Constituted
Behavioral Environment
(CCBE)

 

Pheew!

 

Languages / Linguistics
and
Communication

(slides)

  • phonemics
    • the study of basic sounds
  • phonetics
    • the study of sound units
  • morphemics
    • the study of how sound units combine to form "words"
  • syntatics
    • the study of rules of sentence and phrase structures
  • semantics
    • the study of meaning
  • kinesics
    • the study of "body language" -- motion
  • proxemics
    • the study of "body language" -- space


"Free Listing" -- write down as many colors as you can think of that are expressed as one word (e.g., "light blue" does not qualify, but "navy" does)

Systematic Data Collection, Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney.

 

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

per-son-ality

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

 

Revew of
"Major Schools and Approaches
of Psychological Anthropology"

(Bock 1982)
(handout)

 

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

 

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition," pp. 171-184

  • Review: Ch. 4, "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes," 94-125
 

Notes

 

 

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Monday 9 March 2009

Week 07 Day 14

 

Announcements

 

Features of the Day

 

Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition"

 

 

 

Old Business


return to scheduled features of the day
 

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition," pp. 185-197
 

Notes

  • Monday 9 March 2009: Finished various perceptual worlds and Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment, introduced Communications up to Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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