PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Analytic Reasoning, Saccade
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Ch8: cognition and perception: east asian art looks diff from western art bc ppl from these cultures are seeing the world differently. Analytic and holistic thinking taxonomic categorizations are common among westerns whereas thematic categorization is common among east asians. Analytic thinking: focus on objects and their attributes, these objects are understood in terms of their component parts; more common in western cultures. Holistic thinking: characterized by an orientation to the context as a whole; gives attention to the relation among objects and the surrounding; more common in east asian. Attention analytic thinkers focus attention on separate parts of the scene whereas holistic thinkers direct their attention more broadly, across an entire scene. Rorschach experiment: european-americans described what they saw based on a single aspect of the card, whereas chinese-americans described it based on the entire image on the card. Analytic thinkers show field independence and holistic thinkers show field dependence.
