Cultural Differences in Affordance Perception
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami15296907761597512021-08-03T07:07:20Z Cultural Differences in Affordance Perception Carlson, Krista Disa Cognitive Psychology Across many domains, Nisbett and his colleagues have demonstrated that East Asians tend to employ holistic cognitive processes that emphasize contextual relations, associations, and the importance of the entire visual field, while Westerners tend towards analytic processes, focusing on rules, logic, and the importance of a single agent. Ye (2008) found that culture of origin also influences affordance perception: under certain circumstances, Chinese participants displayed an advantage over American participants in identifying a second affordance for an object. The current study extended these results by asking 89 native Mandarin Chinese speakers and 89 native English speakers to generate affordances of visually presented objects. In order to explore potential mechanisms behind any cultural differences, participants also completed several individual difference measures: a handedness inventory, an assessment of visual/verbal cognitive style, and verbal and spatial working memory tasks. Contrary to predictions, on average Chinese participants generated significantly fewer affordances for common household objects than did European Americans. Similarly, we found no cultural differences in the typicality structure of the affordances listed for each object. In contrast, exploratory analyses revealed that increases in working memory, as well as the tendency towards mixed-handedness, both led to an increase in the average number of uses listed by Chinese participants, but not by European Americans. However, further research should be done with alternative coding criteria, quantitative dependent measures, and a wider range of working memory tasks before detailed interpretations of the relationships between these constructs are offered. 2018-06-25 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1529690776159751 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1529690776159751 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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