PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fundamental Attribution Error, Anthropocentrism, Color Vision
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Westerners often categorize things by taxonomy, similarity of their attributes (animals/plants). East asians often categorize things by themes, grouped together on the basis of causal, temporal or spatial relationships among them (rabbit eats carrot). Analytic thinking: a focus on objects and their attributes and objects are seen as existing independently from their contexts (more common in. Holistic thinking: an orientation to the context as a whole and is an associative way of thinking where there is attention to the relations among objects and the surrounding context (more common in east asian cultures). These kinds of thinking arise due to different social experiences, being individualistic/collectivistic and having independent/interdependent self- concepts. Collectivistic societies tend to be socialized in relational contexts. Individualistic societies tend to be socialized to be independent. globe. Analytic thinkers would more likely to focus their attention on separate. Holistic thinking characterizes the thinking of people from much of the. Holistic thinkers should direct their attention more broadly, across an.
