PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scientific Method, Social Equality, Schadenfreude
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1: by influencing the types of stimuli we encounter in our everyday lives, culture fundamentally influences how we perceive objects in the world around us. If we see 2d images of 3d things, the illusion works for us: but if you are grown in a culture where you don"t see these things, you don"t perceive the image in the same way. Thinking styles: influence of view of the self. Interdependent self: the roles these play in influencing the way people think. Analytic vs. holistic thinking: analytic thinking, focus on objects and attributes, objects perceived as independent from contexts, holistic thinking, attending to the relations among objects, predicting an object"s behavior on the basis of those relationships. It is thought that these ways of thinking influences ways of discovering things: chinese focused on magnetism, the relations between things, westerners focused on separating entities. Analytical vs. holistic thinking; categorization: taxonomic: an analytic way of thinking by focusing on abstract way, eg.
