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Does culture have an effect on cognitive patterns? examination of cultural effect on categorization.
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| Author | Riedel, Alex Guo, Qi |
| Abstract | According to Bruner all human cognitive activity involves the usages of categories (Lefrançois, 2006). But what do we mean when we talk about categorization? For some cultural psychologists categorization means that we can organize the objects that surround us because of their taxonomic relationship or because of their thematic relationship (Li, Zhang & Nisbett, 2004). Taxonomic categorization (category-based classification) is based on the idea that objects share similarities in their perceptual properties, whereas thematic categorization (relationship-based classification) is based on the idea that objects share causal, spatial, and temporal relationships (Markham & Hutchinson, 1984). For example, if people would be presented with three words: dog – cat – bone, and asked which two go together, dog – cat would be an example of taxonomic classification; dog – bone would be an example of relational categorization. In their study Markham and Hutchinson (1984) presented word triplets to children of different ages and asked them to indicate which of the two words go together. They found that the tendency for children to use category-based classification increased with their development. The two authors argued that taxonomic organization is how humans make sense of the world. Culture and Cognition Recent research shows that this is not always the case, especially when we look at different |
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| Subject Keyword | Cultural Effect Cognitive Pattern Category-based Classification Perceptual Property Word Triplet Taxonomic Relationship Dog Cat Zhang Nisbett Relational Categorization Taxonomic Classification Cultural Psychologist Categorization Study Markham Cognition Recent Research Different Age Human Cognitive Activity Temporal Relationship Markham Hutchinson Thematic Relationship Whereas Thematic Categorization Taxonomic Categorization Relationship-based Classification Taxonomic Organization Share Similarity Share Causal Dog Cat Bone |
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