PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: History Of Asian Art, Dispositional Attribution, Asian Americans

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Richard N Lalonde

Document Summary

One person in the picture: drawing by asian: higher horizon. A lot more people are drawn in the picture: taking photos: east asians versus westerners. They weren"t instructed on how to take photos. The ratio of the face to the frame ratio more in americans. Proportion of attributions of either dispositional or situational. With age a rise in dispositional attributions but much more for americans. 8 year old indians and americans, gave similar levels of dispositional attributions (few) and situational attributions (more). As americans get older, they give more dispositional ones. Euro americans tend to try to find the rule. They have access to both, but there"s more tendency for one or the other. Symbolized by the yin and the yang, universe moves back and forth between opposite poles: lao tzu: belief a is connected to and is always changing into its opposite. Not a hence, there can be not real logical contradiction.