PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Asian Americans, Analytic Reasoning
19 Apr 2013
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Masuda+colleagues noticed differences in paintings in countries: east asia- higher horizons in landscape scenes(15% higher, western- figures in portraits larger in western pictures. Argue that these differences reflect fundamental differences in cognitive/perceptual processes that exists between the cultures. Taxonomic categorizations answers common among westerners whereas thematic categorization common among east asians. Taxonomic categorization: dog and rabbit the same because they are animals, carrot different. Thematic categorization: rabbit and carrot go together, dog different. Analytic thinking: focus on objects and their attributes: objects perceived as existing independently from their context, seen more in western culture. Holistic thinking: gives attention to the relations among objects and among the objects and the surrounding context: behavior is predicted and explained on the basis of the relationships, more common in east asian cultures than western. Origins of analytic and holistic thinking due to social experiences in individualistic/collectivistic cultures. Attention: where our cognitive activity is directed. Analytic: focus attention on separate parts of a scene.
