Cognition and Perception

Question 1

Miyamoto et al (2006)

Answer 1

Patterns of attention can be explained by perceptual environment of culture
e.g. Japanese scenes more ambiguous and contains more elements than US

Question 2

Monga and John (2007)

Answer 2

Americans find the idea of Kodak making filing cabinets odd as they don't categorise the items together (taxonomic categorisation) - not class similarity
Indians don't find it odd as they think the filing cabinet would be a good place for filing the photographs - see the items and extensions of one another

Question 3

Masuda and Nisbett (2006)

Answer 3

Americans detect more changes in focal objects, Japanese detect more changes in the background

Question 4

Masuda and Nisbett (2001)

Answer 4

Ppts shown fishtank and then asked to recall what they saw
Americans focused on prominent items e.g. the bigest, brightest, fastest moving
Japanese focused on context items e.g. non-moving, background
Overall Japanese recalled 60% more context than US

Question 5

Ji et al (2000)

Answer 5

Rod and frame task
Ppts asked to say whether rod was vertical regardless of angle of surrounding frame
East Asians made sig more errors

Question 6

Ji et al (2019)

Answer 6

Chinese have greater self-continuity that Euro-Canadians

See past and future as more interconnected and subjectively closer to the present

Question 7

Maddux and Yuki (2009)

Answer 7

Given various scenarios and asked to think of consequences

Asians showed more awareness of distal consequences then Euro-Americans

Question 8

Choi et al (2007)

Answer 8

Differences within-culture
Koreans holistic in gen but oriental medicine students more so - in oriental medicine all human organs are seen as interrelated, controlling and influencing of each other. If one organ becomes weak another becomes stronger