PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Eleanor Rosch, Fundamental Attribution Error, Culture Of Asia
31 Oct 2016
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Psyc 3350 chapter 9: cognition and perception. Taxonomic categorization stimuli are grouped according to the perceived similarity of their attributes: especially common among westerners. Thematic categorization stimuli are grouped together on the basis of causal, temporal, or spatial relationships among them: especially common among east asians. Analytic thinking 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. People with independent self-concepts come to understand others by focusing on their inner attributes and attending less to relationships. People with interdependent self-concepts tend to conceive of people in terms of their relationships with others. Attention at a given time, where one"s cognitive activity is directed. Holistic thinkers tendency to focus on entire scenes should mean they would do poorly on tasks that require separating a scene into its component parts. Field independence they can separate objects from their background fields: analytic thinkers.
