Society's cradle

an anthropological perspective on the socialisation of cognition

Billie J. Isbell

Lauris McKee

pp. 327-364

in: John Sants (ed), Developmental psychology and society, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1980

Abstract

As a species, we have universal capacities for perceiving the world, and cognitively structuring what we perceive. Nonetheless, the stimuli available to perception and the cultural values which give meaning to the objects and events perceived determine that cognitive skills may covary in some manner with the meaningful stimuli available to perception.