Learning Objectives Overview1 Learning Objectives for Lecture 1: Lecture 1 (September 9, 2020) · No learning objectives Lecture 2 (September 11, 2020) . Explain different ways in which culture can be defined · Understand three challenges associated with thinking about groups of people as constituting cultures . Compare cultural psychology to other schools of psychology . Discuss evidence supporting cultural psychology's assertion that the mind and culture make each other up · Define the four degrees of psychological universality · Understand the importance of the WEIRD people problem Lecture 3 (September 14, 2020) . Understand how our carpentered-world contributes to discussions of the WEIRD people problem . Explain how the environment and our minds are interconnected . Differentiate between the nature, and consequences, of colour-blind and multicultural approaches . Compare cultural psychology to other schools of psychology Lecture 4 (September 16, 2020) . Differentiate between the nature, and consequences, of colour-blind and multicultural approaches · Compare cultural psychology to other schools of psychology . Explain how culture comes about and is transmitted · Understand and apply the Berry Ecocultural Model . Differentiate between the different forms of cultural transmission . Explain how societies differ in the prevalence of different forms of cultural transmission · Address question of whether or not culture is unique to humans . Identify cognitive tools that facilitate cultural transmission . Define and explain theory of mind Lecture 5 (September 18, 2020) 1 Note that this breakdown is approximate, and depends on the pace of class
· Explain Tomasello's Theory of cultural learning and differentiate between different forms of learning . Describe how theory of mind plays a role in cultural transmission Lecture 6 (September 21, 2020) · Differentiate between different forms of cultural learning · Explain how the cephalization factor, encephalization quotient, and neocortex ratio contribute to our understanding of brain-size evolution · Contrast different explanations for brain-size evolution . Understand how the evolution of the brain is associated with human's unique ability to have cumulative culture . Describe the different cognitions that facilitated the development of cumulative culture · Explain this big picture question: How did human brains get to their size now, rather than something smaller or bigger? Lecture 7 (September 23, 2020) . Understand the key points of Jared Diamond's thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel · Differentiate between distal and proximal causes of psychological variability · Explain different proposed processes of cultural evolution · Differentiate between biological and cultural evolution Lecture 8 (September 25, 2020) · Understand how cultural evolution contributes to our understanding of cultural diversity and similarities · Differentiate different types of scientific papers in cultural psychology · Interpret a cultural phylogeny tree · Interpret an equilibrium graph Lecture 9 (September 28, 2020) . Understand how and when humans first receive cultural information · Understand what aspects of speech can fetuses learn · Explain how sleep differs between babies with different cultural backgrounds · Evaluate the merits and dangers of co-sleeping · Provide sound recommendations for safe co-sleeping Lecture 10