PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Individualism, Ponzo Illusion, Meta-Analysis
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General psychology: focus on universals, mind is independent from context, human brain behaves like the cpu. Cultural psychology: focuses on cultural variation, mind is not separate from context, context influences psychological processing. The ponzo illusion: which line is longer, the one on the top, or the bottom, we use depth cues, we think the lines are moving off to the background. Westerners say the gazelle, but bantu say the elephant. By influencing the types of stimuli we encounter in our everyday lives, culture fundamentally influences how we perceive objects in the world around us. Thinking styles: influence of view of the self. Analytic thinking = individualistic: focus on objects and attributes, objects perceived as independent from contexts. Ancient greeks emphasized formal logic, categorization of discrete and unchanging objects possessing unique properties. Ancient chinese emphasized harmony, interconnectedness, and change. Early discoveries westerners had scientific method earlier, whereas east asians had concepts of magnetism earlier and moon"s influence on the tides.
