Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Culture

Cognition, Emotion, And Motivation: Culture
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Cognition, Emotion, And Motivation: Culture
Introduction
Culture refers to the patterns of shared principles, norms, and morals which are particular to a group of people. Research has shown that the social ideas, customs, and behavior of a specific society influences how its members perceive and comprehend the world around them. Culture contributes to how we perceive our environment through social processes that undergird learning, partaking in daily activities, and material as well as emblematic artifacts that aid and extend thinking. Culture also influences emotion by shaping how members of a particular group or society should feel in various situations as well as how they should express their feelings. Emotions are cultural phenomena since people learn how to perceive, experience, and even display feelings in a cultural way. Moreover, culture influences motivation by shaping how members of a particular group or society perceive achievement and the needs that direct behavior toward achievement. Different cultures differ in how they shape, promote, and constrain the kinds of achievements that people will pursue as well as the wants or values driving those pursuits. This thesis will discuss the relationship between cognition, emotion, and motivation in the context of culture. It will also integrate personal factors, environmental influences, and sociocultural components relevant to the research topic.
How Culture Influences Cognition
Culture influences cognition by providing an all-encompassing framework that guides how members of a specific groups or society perceive, weigh, describe, and attend to events and objects tied to their selves and the external environment. Our understanding of our selves and the broader environment is founded on imperfect and biased processes including awareness, problem solving, attention, rationalizing, and memory. These cognitive processes guide the process of representing our selves and the world: people perceive, organize, and assess information about themselves and the environment around them using already existing schemas. Various studies have shown that people rarely experience themselves or the broader environment in a perfect or impartial way (Lee & Shin, 2021). Rather, they rely on preexisting representations that are susceptible to cultural influences. Culture has a conditioning effect on perception and cognition through norms, principles, needs, and values, which influence people’s fundamental sensory acuities.
Culture provides a set of theories about the self and external environment thereby influencing how people perceive or understand sensory inputs like shapes, colors, images, or sounds. Cultural differences in perception and cognition are most notable in the ways Westerners and Easterners interpret the self and broader environment. For instance, people in Western cultures are socialized to be assertive and independent while people in Eastern cultures are socialized to be empathetic and interdependent. Westerners tend to view the self as a self-governing, independent entity as opposed to Easterners who have a domina...