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A child’s psychological functions start to be mediated by culture around age two (Culture In Infancy), but a child’s physical perceptions such as depth and making lateral adjustments have already started to come into play. Have you ever noticed how an infant reaches straight out to grab something? This is due to the fact that physical depth perception (like so many other psychological perceptions) is learned through experience. Once they learn the lateral movement (of depth) it is programmed into their mind as being experience. Having repeated this experience, the mind will eventually default to this experience when the same or similar opportunity arises.

The same goes for our thinking process. After our brain has had experienced something culturally, it defaults this experience to part of our reality of the way things are. This is when a person’s culture and background start to develop perception in children, and later, adult’s thinking processes. “Our brain both is shaped by the external world and shapes our perception of the external world”. (Culture Influence p 59 )

As we start to age, our perceptions are being shaped culturally. Scientists have actually found biological differences between the way different cultures brains’ process stimulation. (Cultural Experience). EATING INSECTS, AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF PROTEIN, IS PRACTICED IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD, BUT NOT THE UNITED STATES: THE IDEA OF BUGS AS FOOD FOR HUMANS HAS AN IMAGE PROBLEM BASED ON MOST AMERICANS' PERCEPTION OF BUGS AS VERMIN. This is done through brain scans to find out what parts of the brain are being used during this stimulation. There are

thinking process differences between different cultures as well due to their different backgrounds.

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... it is because they are just good friends. In Portland if we see the same we assume they are homosexual and it is kind of the norm. In the small town of Pendleton, where they may not have been as exposed to alternative lifestyles, these same people may be chastised, called names, or maybe even have rocks thrown at them. OREGON'S CASCADE RANGE MARKS ONE OF THE MOST STARK DIVISIONS OF CLIMATE AND ECOLOGY IN THE COUNTRY, AND THIS IS COUPLED WITH BIG DIFFERENCES IN THE CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE OF PEOPLE LIVING EAST OF THE CASCADES, WHO TEND TO BE MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN OREGONIANS LIVING IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY. These are just a couple examples out of thousands on how a person’s culture and background may affect someone’s perception. Perception does not necessarily determine wrong from right. It is just our own physiological interpretation due to background and culture.