PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Richard E. Nisbett

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

Document Summary

Perception: how we view things in our environment (visual, spatial, etc) Two basic systems for reasoning; not a dichotomy (more of a spectrum) Holistic thinking: focuses on the entire scene: relationships among objects, predict behaviour of particular object on the bias of the surrounding objects, relies on associative thought (looking for relationships) These two fundamental ways of thinking are seen across all cultures; one may be more prominent in certain cultures. How we acquire information is going to guide how we look at things. Independent cultures: tend to learn that one is independent from one another; each person is their own: physical world can be understood the same way. Interdependent cultures: people learn to pay attention to those around them; the relations among people: applies to how they view the physical world (look for relationships, richard nisbett provided the evidence of this cultural difference.