W4 – Culture Shapes Cognition and Perception
In the two examples of comparing northern and southern İtaly and Protestant and Catholic migrants with the affected cognitive skills and perception, it is quite interesting that even though lifestyle practices (ecological circumstances and political systems for Italy, religious discourses for European migrants) have changed, associated social orientation, and holistic versus analytic thinking comes from previous can still exist.
When attributing situations, Eastern people give credit to external circumstances more than Western people (e.g., comparing East Asians and Americans), which may have a positive effect on Easterners’ being more helpful and collaborative with others than Westerns (as we learned in previous weeks) in terms of recognizing others’ positions and possible challenges and empathizing it.
In spontaneous trait inference studies, using ERP and N-400 appears highly beneficial since this initial interference cannot be measured with self-report or observation. Also, possible changes in neural responses may not be reflected in behavior according to cultural beliefs.
Considering social orientations and bicultural Asian Americans’ weakened N-400 responses in incongruent cases is a great illustration of how the dynamism of culture affects cognition.
We know that we constantly get feedback from the culture that shapes our experiences and learning. The sensitivity of focusing incongruent conditions between the vocal tone and the meaning of the word is higher in Asians (comparing North Americans), especially for women can be determined based on previous weeks’ discussions on Eastern people’s advanced non-verbal communication skills and their disposition of ‘mutual surveillance and criticism’, which increases their tendency to controlling and figuring out the actual & deeper meaning of others’ discourses with their judgments. Especially for women in suppression and being exposed to sexism in some Eastern societies, their greater sensitivity to recognizing incongruent conditions (than men and Western people) seems reasonable.
Naive dialecticism, which underlines the principles of contradiction, change, and holism reminds me of my course of ‘The Relationship between Music and Belief in Anatolia’. That course points out the concept of ‘cycle’ and studies several Anatolian religious practices philosophically nourished by the understanding of the universe is whole composed of various opposites such as day-night, ecological cycles and their harmony (with a meta-physic perspective also examined by Aristotle and Platon).
The cases with East Asians that prone to display collectivistic behavior that is inconsistent with their independence level according to their subjective perception may be explained by the cultural-institutional approach that separates internalized and non-internalized behaviors.
I agree with the limitation that these studies always come from certain places in the east-west comparison. I would love to see many other studies from Turkey, such as the shepherd and farmer example in the Black Sea Region.
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Hello Zeynep Rana, thank you so much for your work. I really enjoyed hearing your interpretation of the chapter. To start with the grammar, I haven’t seen anything incorrect with the structural and grammatical aspects of your post. The beginning of your post was really informative about the chapter, however, I would have love to also see your comments and summaries on the article as well. I really liked how you mentioned another course of yours, it was an interesting take on the matter. I had a hard time understanding the cultural-institutional approach, maybe you can elaborate on that to make it easier for the reader to comprehend your point of view. I also liked your mention of the limitations of the literature on being east-west oriented. To sum up, I loved how you incorporated your comments into your post, but it would be better if you could also include some of the points from the article as well. Thank you!
Hello Pervin,
I understand from the cultural-institutional approach (mentioned in the method chapter) that it primarily separates cultural-based acts into internalized and non-internalized ones (lost with the disappearance of the others: when there is no one to see).
Thank you for your helpful comment on the article. I was surprised because I had assumed we wrote journals according to chapters, and I had never received such feedback before.
RENEWED VERSION:
In the two examples of comparing northern and southern İtaly and Protestant and Catholic migrants with the affected cognitive skills and perception, I found it quite interesting that even though lifestyle practices (ecological circumstances and political systems for Italy, religious discourses for European migrants) have changed, associated social orientation, and holistic versus analytic thinking comes from previous can still exist.
When attributing situations, Eastern people give credit to external circumstances more than Western people (e.g., comparing East Asians and Americans), which may have a positive effect on Easterners’ being more helpful and collaborative with others than Westerns (as we learned in previous weeks) in terms of recognizing others’ positions and possible challenges and empathizing it.
In spontaneous trait inference studies, using ERP and N-400 appears highly beneficial since this initial interference cannot be measured with self-report or observation. Also, possible changes in neural responses may not be reflected in behavior according to cultural beliefs.
Considering social orientations and bicultural Asian Americans’ weakened N-400 responses in incongruent cases is a great illustration of how the dynamism of culture affects cognition.
We know that we constantly get feedback from the culture that shapes our experiences and learning. I guess that the sensitivity of focusing incongruent conditions between the vocal tone and the meaning of the word is higher in Asians (comparing North Americans), especially for women can be determined based on previous weeks’ discussions on Eastern people’s advanced non-verbal communication skills and their disposition of ‘mutual surveillance and criticism’, which increases their tendency to controlling and figuring out the actual & deeper meaning of others’ discourses with their judgments. Especially for women in suppression and being exposed to sexism in some Eastern societies, their greater sensitivity to recognizing incongruent conditions (than men and Western people) seems reasonable.
Naive dialecticism, which underlines the principles of contradiction, change, and holism reminds me of my course of ‘The Relationship between Music and Belief in Anatolia’. That course points out the concept of ‘cycle’ and studies several Anatolian religious practices philosophically nourished by the understanding that the universe is wholly composed of various opposites such as day-night, ecological cycles and their harmony (with a meta-physic perspective also examined by Aristotle and Platon).
I would explain the cases with East Asians who are prone to display collectivistic behavior have inconsistency in their independence level according to their subjective perception with the cultural-institutional approach that separates cultural-based acts into internalized and non-internalized ones that lost with the disappearance of the others).
I agree with the limitation that these studies always come from certain places in the east-west comparison. I would love to see many other studies from Turkey, such as the shepherd and farmer case in the Black Sea Region. If there were more cases, I am sure we could conceptualize, question and develop some ideas about the findings we read with our own knowledge and experience from a much deeper degree.
Hello Zeynep Rana,
Having read your previous writings, I found this one to be quite different from the others. You’ve used a much more informative tone, and the language you’ve employed seems more complex compared to your earlier works. This made me wonder if there was any use of AI involved. I should emphasize that I am only mentioning this based on my observation. Apart from that, I saw very little of your personal commentary or experiences reflected in the text, which gave me the feeling that I was reading a summary. For future assignments, a more personalized approach might be helpful.
Bests,
Refik