PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Richard E. Nisbett, Field Dependence
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If there is one thing that varies tremendously across cultures, and across historical time, it is artistic traditions. Masuda, and his supervisor richard nisbett, and their colleagues interpreted that: east asian art looks different from. Western art because people from these cultures are literally seeing the world differently. They argued that these different artistic styles reflect some fundamental differences in basic cognitive and perceptual processes between these two cultures. Analytic thinking: is characterized by a focus on objects and their attributes. Objects are perceived as existing independently from their contexts they are understood in terms of their component parts. The attributes that make 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. Analytic thinking, is more common in western cultures than it is elsewhere, particularly in east asia (i. e. , china,
