PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Walter Mischel, Physical Culture, Naturalistic Observation
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Difference btw easterners (whole) and westerners (parts) blot test. Is it all about the person or the situation (culture) or both. Verbal aggression r=. 47 p<0. 01 less . 05 so significant. Features of if then profiles invite questions about a person"s construal of situations, motivations, goals and expectation. Caus operate within an interconnected network to ultimately predict behaviour. Different pathways become activated in relation to features of the situations. Features of culture features of situations caus behaviors. Muller-lyer illusion and the carpentered hypothesis we live in constructed buildings which causes us to fall victim to the muller lyer illusion. Independence: can separate objects in focal point from the background noise vs dependence: we have a difficult time separating the central foreground from the background. The rodden frame task: the frame pulls your eye and makes you think that the rod is tilted. Western cultures field independent vs eastern cultures dependent.
