PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Field Dependence, Cultural Psychology
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Cogniion and percepion - how does the mind work? o o o o. Culture fundamentally inluences how people perceive objects by inluencing the types of simuli encountering everyday lives. o. Kalahari san man do not have muller-lyer illusion. American undergraduates are most likely to have muller-lyer illusion o. The one on the top seems longer than the one on the botom. The symbolizing three dimensions in two hypothesis argues that this illusion is more efecive in cultures where people are more used to visualizing two-dimensional representaions of three-dimensional objects and scenes. When examining 2-d representaions, people are used to inferring occlusion, which is a cue to depth. o. Westerners say the gazelle, but bantu say the elephant. Culture fundamentally inluence people"s view of the self thinking style. o. Predicing an object"s behavior on basis of those relaionships. Ancient greeks emphasized formal logic, categorizaion of discrete and unchanging objects possessing unique properies. Ancient chinese emphasized harmony, interconnectedness, and change. o.
