PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Categorical Perception, Collectivism, Fundamental Attribution Error
13 Feb 2019
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Are differences in tradition due to differences in emulation or differences in psychology of people from different cultures. Taxomic categorization: individualistic cultures group stimuli according the the perceived similarity of their attributes: analytic thinking: focus on objects and their attributes as existing independently from their contexts. Thematic categorization: collectivistic cultures group stimuli according to the causal, temporal, or spatial relationships among them: holistic thinking: attention to the relations among objects and among the contextual surroundings. Knowledge is gained through experience rather than the application of xed abstract rules. The cultural di erences in understanding people (self-concepts) also shape the kinds of information peoplea ttend to in their physical environment. Analytic thinking is more unusual because it is restricted to people who have had contact with western society or education systems. Analytic thinkins focus their attention on the parts of scenes that represent discrete objects: eld independence: ability to separate objects from their background elds (rod and frame task)
