Ethnocultural Psychology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 How are Westerner artists different in the way they portray the world? | they paint horizons much lower and people much larger |
| Analytic thinking | focus on objects & their attributes, -Western cultures |
| Holistic thinking | focus on the relations among objects and surrounding contexts -Eastern cultures |
| East Asians use thematic categorization strategy based on... | causal, temporal, or spatial relationships |
| Major difference in Eastern and Western though can be seen in... | medicine |
| The analytic style of Westerners tied to... | education and independence |
| Rorschach ink blots | Americans look at one aspect of card Chinese-Americans give "whole-card" response |
| field independence | can separate objects from their background fields |
| field dependence | tend to view objects as bound to their backgrounds |
| Saccades | extremely quick eye movements that shift people's gaze from one fixation point to another |
| Fundamental Attribution error | we assume that people's behavior reflects their underlying dispositions, even when we know they were required to behave in a certain way |
| Naive dialecticism | acceptance of contradiction |
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