PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Asian Americans, Analytic Reasoning
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Taxonomic category is a stimuli are grpd in according to the perceived similarity of their attributes. Thematic categorization strategy is that stimuli are grpd together on the basis of causal, temporal, or spatial rltnshps among them. Analytic thinking: focus on objects and their attributes. Objects perceived as existing independently from their contexts and they are understood in terms of their component parts. The attributes tht mke up objects are used as a basis for categorizing them, and a set of fixed abstract rules is used to predict and explain the behavior of these objects. Holistic thinking: orientation to the context as a whole. An associative way of thinking which gives attention to the relations among objects and among objects and the surrounding context. Objects are understood in terms of how they relate to the rest of the context and behavior is predicted and explained on the basis of those relationships.
