PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Continuous Or Discrete Variable, Color Vision, Linguistic Relativity
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Taxonomic categorization stimuli are grouped according to the perceived similarity of their attributes. Dog, rabbit, carrot (carrot is the outlier) Thematic categorization stimuli are grouped together on the basis of causal, temporal, or spatial r/s among them. Dog, rabbit, carrot (rabbit and carrot go together bc rabbits eat carrots: east thematic categorization. The differences in categorization strategies reflects an underlying diff in the ways that ppl attend to their worlds. Holistic vs analytic thinking analytic thinking: focus on objects and their attributes. Objects exist independently from their contexts, & are understood in terms of their component parts. Associative way of thinking, gives attn to the relations among objects and the surrounding context. Objects are related to the rest of the context, & their beh is predicted/explained on the basis of those r. s. World is a collection of discrete, unchanging objects that can be categorized by reference to a set of universal properties. Aristotle: hollisitc thinking chinese confucianism, taoism, buddhism.
