GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Structured Interview, Heritability, Asian Americans
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Weird western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. Culture and point of view nisbett & masuda. Basic processes of cognition and perception are not universal. Context : greeks: independent, individualism, autonomy, the western self is independent and largely unconnected. It can move from one setting or context to another ( low context ) The western-style independent and largely unconnected self is hard for east asians to comprehend. Logic vs. dialectics: chinese were more likely to propose middle way"" solutions, americans think that one side or another should be correct. Categorization: east asians have been found to classify objects and events on the basis of relationships and family resemblance, americans classify on the basis of rule-based category membership. East asians are inclined to focus their attention broadly on the field field dependence. Change blindness study: american participants were more likely to detect changes in salient objects, whereas. Japanese participants were more likely to detect relationship and environment (context) changes.
