Anthropology and its help towards psychology

I'm not sure if I had the correct reading I searched in the LMS and couldn't find it but I found in someone's email titled, "Forty Studies that Changed Psychology" by Roger R. Hock.
In this reading, psychologists were trying to interpret if the way humans intrepret depth and the distance of things is innate or developed through experience. They created a test with a table and a checker pattern and used animals and infants of all ages to see how they would react to the differences in spacial illusions.

What I found interesting was how psychology was able to expand by the information an anthropologist, Turnbull, was able to give about a native, Kenge, to the area. Turnball was explaining how some characteristcs of the human behavior are innate and how some are developed through experience. Kenge's reactions to the mountains and animals on it were recorded and were able to prove that these things were developed depending on your enviromental surroundings and your need in using them.


By Jessica Tapia