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what is culture made of?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

chen yu and
linda smith
chen yu
Affiliation:
department of psychology and cognitive science program, indiana university, bloomington, in 47405 chenyu@indiana.edu smith4@indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~dll/ http://www.indiana.edu/~cogdev/
linda smith
Affiliation:
department of psychology and cognitive science program, indiana university, bloomington, in 47405 chenyu@indiana.edu smith4@indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~dll/ http://www.indiana.edu/~cogdev/
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Abstract

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culture is surely important in human learning. but the relation between culture and psychological mechanism needs clarification in three areas: (1) all learning takes place in real time and through real-time mechanisms; (2) social correlations are just a kind of learnable correlations; and (3) the proper frame of reference for cognitive theories is the perspective of the learner.

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Type
open peer commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005, pp. 515
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press