PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Nicotine, Intelligence Quotient, Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Research on cognition and perception is esteemed so much because it purports to be informing us about the most elementary and essential psychological processes. Researchers in this field question how the human mind works how the brain is able to process the streams of information that people encounter as they go about our their lives. Horizon at a lower point in french paintings than japanese. French subject larger than a subject in chinese portraits. Given the fundamental questions that occupy researchers of cognition and perception, it is quite remarkable that it is in this domain that some of the clearest evidence for cross- cultural variability appears. Which of these three are least like the other two? (cid:498)a dog, a carrot or a rabbit(cid:499) people typically give one of two kinds of answers. One common answer is the carrot since the other two are animals. This is called taxonomic categorization strategy (common in.
