PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Laozi, Fundamental Attribution Error, Richard E. Nisbett
10 Dec 2016
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Analytic thinking two basic systems for reasoning: analytic and holistic reasoning. Uses rules to explain and predict an object"s behaviour. Predict an object"s behaviour on the basis of those relationships. Relies on associative thought these two fundamental ways of thinking vary across cultures. Generalizes to attention of relations among physical objects in environment. Richard nisbett and colleagues provide much evidence demonstrating this cultural difference. Ability to separate objects from each other is termed field independence. Easier for analytic thinkers than holistic thinkers field independence often tested with a rod and frame task; a rod is inside a frame and they are both rotated. East asians sensitive to the contextual information (frame) -- made more errors when the frame was angled. North americans focused on the rod by itself -- as a result, made fewer errors when the frame was angled. American and japanese participants looked at an underwater scene with fish swimming, waving seaweed, and so forth.
