CLPS 0200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hyperbolic Geometry, Middle Way, Change Blindness
11 Nov 2016
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03-12: culture and attention, perception, cognition cross-cultural psychology. The critical and comparative study of cultural effects on human psychology. The study of relationships between cultural contexts and behaviors. Set of attitudes, behaviors, and symbols shared and communicated from one generation to the next. Shared way of life of a group of people including artifacts and symbols. Culture is to society what memory is to individuals . Eastern vs. western cultural differences: western: analytic approach, eastern: holistic approach analytic vs. holistic approach. Analytic: western (ancient greece), detachment of the object from its context, attributes of the objects to assign it to categories, abstract logic-based knowledge, avoidance of contradictions. Holistic: eastern (ancient chinese), orientation to the context or field as a whole, relationships between the object and the field, experience-based knowledge, dialectical/the. Culture influences how we allocate our attention and perceive the world framed-line test: absolute task: draw absolute length, ignoring change in the size of box.
