acculturation vs mental object

acculturation and mental object both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
acculturation	Yes	No	No	No
mental object	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental object is a hypernym of acculturation; that is, mental object is a word with a broader meaning than acculturation:

acculturation: all the knowledge and values shared by a society
mental object: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

Other hypernyms of acculturation include cognitive content, content.

acculturation (noun)	mental object (noun)
the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture	the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
all the knowledge and values shared by a society
the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure