ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Oxytocin Receptor, Mentalization, Affordance
27 Oct 2020
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Western: to focal object, analysing attributes, find out rules govern behaviour including formal logic, causal attribution focuses on object which can lead to misunderstanding. Live more independent in less constraining worlds, physical affordance, art emphasises individuals and people. East asians: attend to broad perceptual and conceptual field, relationships, changes, group objects based on family resemblance, social factors important in categorizing. Live in complex social networks with prescribed role relations. Westerns explain events by reference to properties of the object, while east asians explain the same events with reference to interactions between the object and the field. Study: americans explain murders and sport events by invoking presumed traits, abilities or other characteristics of the individual, whereas chinese explain the same events with reference to contextual and historical factors. Study: individual fish moving chinese due to external factors, while americans due to internal. Differences probably due to different metaphysical understanding.
