cognition Flashcards
scores on muller lyer illusion
people in industrialized societies have larger illusion
carpented world hypothesis suggests
People developmentally acquire perceptions of a three- dimensional world with their experiences with the surrounding environment.
scores on ebbinghaus illusion
japanese larger illusion than brits
origins of analytic thinking
sense of personal agency, debate
origins of holistic thinking
sense of reciprocal social obligation, value of harmony
zi zhang and nisbett found
chinese students group via relation, american students group via rules
masuda and nisbett fish descriptions
americans initially refer to focal objects mainly, japanese initially refer to field objects mainly, each referred to fish equally
masuda and nisbett fish novel
japanese perform better than usa with og background, americans perform better than japan with novel background
chua, boland and nisbett eye tracking
americans look longer at focal object than background, chinese looked more at background
what is fundamental attribution error
Tendency to (wrongly) attribute people’s
behaviors to their personal
characteristics
morris and peng fundamental atrribution error
us newpapers report murder as dispositional, chinese newspapers report murder as situational
american vs chinese change prediction
chinese think change more likely
why do chinese predict more change
consider external factors, dialectisism
northern italians more
indivudalistic
culture and psyche
make each other up
