Author Question: Who among the following individuals would you predict would be most likely to make an external ... (Read 47 times)

savannahhooper · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Who among the following individuals would you predict would be most likely to make an external attribution for any given behavior observed?

a. a U.S.-born American adult
b. an 8-year-old born and raised in India
c. a Hong Kong Chinese college student who had just been shown images related to Chinese culture
d. a Hong Kong Chinese college student who had just been shown images related to American culture

Question 2

Research using fMRI brain scanning technology indicates which of the following?

a. East Asian participants use a greater percentage of their frontal and parietal regions when making judgments than do American participants.
b. Neither East Asian nor American participants are able to overcome their typical, learned ways of attending to (or overlooking) context.
c. Participants from both cultures demonstrate greater activation in higher-order cortical regions when asked to perceive objects in a way that is unusual for them.
d. Social neuroscience data provide no support for the hypothesis that holistic versus analytic thinking styles tend to vary by cultural background.