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Chapter 12 - Where Tides Collide: Integrating Culture in Teaching Cognitive Psychology

from Cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2018

By
Aaron S. Richmond
Edited by
Kenneth D. Keith
Kenneth D. Keith
Affiliation:
University of San Diego
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Summary

There is a growing trend in both research and teaching connecting culture to cognition. Some of the information in this chapter may work toward teaching students this evolving intertwined relation. Whether using general strategies such as attempting to internationalize the psychology course, or demonstrating how culture influences such specific phenomena as facial and name recognition, students will begin to understand the important role culture plays in cognition. When tides collide, the water temperature changes, the currents mix and churn, waves break and crash, and ultimately something new is formed. Similarly, when we combine culture and cognition, something new is born and it is incumbent upon us to usher in this change for the next generation of students and scholars.
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Culture across the Curriculum
A Psychology Teacher's Handbook
 , pp. 265 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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