PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Yucatec Maya Language, Linguistic Relativity, Relative Silence
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Carrot: taxonomic categorization strategy (common among westerners); vs. dog: thematic categorization strategy (east asians) Analytic thinking (more common in western cultures): focusing on objects and their attributes; objects are perceived as existing independently from contexts and understood in terms of their component parts. : cultural differences in analytic vs. holistic exist between greek & Chinese 2500 years ago, and persist to this day because provided intellectual groundwork from which those societies have evolved. Platonic perspective: world is a collection of discrete, unchanging objects that can be categorized by reference to universal properties; also, 1 development of logic system that searched for truth according to abstract rules independent from observations. Confucianism, taoism, buddhism: harmony, interconnectedness, change (led to knowledge of magnetism, acoustic resonance, moon"s role in the tides long before westerners) Parallel differences exist even within cultures: working class americans and. Where holistic thinking are found are also where there has traditionally been little psychological research (overestimated pervasiveness of analytic thinking?)
