PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Categorical Perception, Middle Temporal Gyrus, Eleanor Rosch
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Second, he noted that figures in portraits were much larger in western pictures than in. East asian ones (on average, the western faces were three times as large). Masuda and colleagues claim that east asian art looks different from western art because people from these cultures are literally seeing the world differently. They argue that these different artistic styles reflect some fundamental differences in basic cognitive and perceptual processes between these two cultures. A dog, a carrot, and a rabbit. people typically give one of two kinds of answers. One is the carrot because both dog and rabbit are animals, so they share common attributes that differ from the attributes of the carrot, which is a vegetable. In this taxonomic categorization strategy, stimuli are grouped based on the perceived similarity of their attributes. Taxonomic categorization answers are especially common among westerners. Rabbits eat carrots, so rabbits and carrots have a relationship, which dogs don"t share.
