ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ebbinghaus Illusion, Pragmatics, Dialectic
26 Oct 2020
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College 3 18/09/2017 cognition & culture. Culture blindness: assuming that observed findings in one"s own culture are presumed to be universal. *ebbinghaus illusion: dot in middle with dots around it, right appears to be smaller than left himba did not see the illusion, english people did. When it was the cow version the himba did see the illusion suggest that there is an interaction between high level cognition and low-level perception. Norm-sensitivity hypothesis: identifying 2 dopamine alleles that show if there are present people are more susceptible to society they are living in (west more independent, asian more interdependent) List of features that distinguish holistic/analytic thinking in slides. Knowledge-based views: neither prototype nor exemplar models have attempted to account for knowledge effects the problem is that these models start from a kind of tabula rasa representation, and concept representations are built up solely by experience with exemplars. *more expert in first language (when you learn a second language)
