Exam 9: Cognition and Perception

Given the cross-cultural research on odor perception, which person would perform the best on an odor identification task?

Contrasting the attributions made by Indians and Americans in research by Joan Miller reveals all of the following EXCEPT that

During a professional ice hockey game, fans from around the world saw Tony Bertram, a professional hockey player, punch an unsuspecting player in the face and throw him onto the ice.According to analytic versus holistic thinking styles, which of the following do you think is most likely to happen?

Two computer science majors, Janet, who is from the United States, and Lan, who is from China, are each creating a website for their final project.Given what you know about how culture influences the presentation of complex information, which of the following outcomes would you be most likely to expect regarding this website?

Maris is preparing to apply to graduate programs this December, and she has asked two of her professors to give her advice on her personal statement.Professor Markus said, "You talk too much about your personal life in your statement," whereas Professor Sedikides said, "You should talk more about your personal life in your statement." As a dialectic thinker born and raised in China, how do you think Maris will respond to this contradictory feedback?

Michael writes for the school newspaper.His editor often assigns him topics to write about and specifies what position Michael should take on the topic.Michael's girlfriend, Brittany, knows this but still criticizes Michael after reading an article in which he advocates raising student tuition.Michael claims that Brittany is committing the fundamental attribution error, which means that she did which of the following?

Ayumi is a Japanese student and Alice is a European Canadian student.They are both participating in a study in which they are asked to provide some self-descriptions.Given what you know about cultural influences on tolerating contradictions, which of the following is the likeliest outcome of this study?

Analytic thinking is argued to be associated with

Draw a landscape scene containing at least a building, a tree, an animal, and the moon.State whether your picture reflects the artistic approach more characteristic of American or East Asian art, and identify and describe at least two features that demonstrate this.

Analytic and holistic thinking differ in that analytic thinking involves ________ and holistic thinking involves ________.

Recent fieldwork suggests that the Saami people (an indigenous people living in parts of northern Europe) have almost 100 words to describe various kinds of reindeer.English, on the other hand, has only a tiny fraction of words used to describe reindeer.According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, what cultural difference between English and Saami speakers would result from this disparity in the size of reindeer-related vocabulary?

A person participates in a study that uses the rod-and-frame test to assess attentional style.Which of the following results is most likely to occur for a person with a field dependent attentional style?