PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Castro District, San Francisco, Collectivism, Eye Tracking
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Analytic thinking: characterized by focus on objects and their attributes; existing independently from their contexts. Holistic thinking: focus on the context as a whole; associative way of thinking that focuses on relationships among objects and their surrounding context (thinking of pieces of the puzzle relative to the whole rather than just on its own) Field dependence: view objects as bound by their background. Correlational: autism spectrum disorders associated with bias toward local processing (pieces rather than the whole) and disbelief. Experimental: priming analytic thinking reduces religious belief in n. americans. Center of attention or part of a scene. Eye tracker study show americans vs. e. asians attend to different parts of a scene. Probably relates to the individualistic vs. collectivistic culture. Dispositional attributions: attend to internal characteristics (eg. personality, preferences, etc) Situational attributions: attend to aspects of situations (weather, other things going on in that person"s life)
