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Causal Attribution Error
Psychologists inside the perceptive science have for a long time believed that casual reasoning
procedures such as fundamental labels are the same in every culture. Although identifying that the
content of causal beliefs can differ widely across cultures, psychologists have assumed that the ways
in which people come to make their causal judgments are essentially the same, and therefore that
they tend to make the same sorts of inferential errors. A case in point is the fundamental attribution
error, or FAE, a phenomenon that is of central importance to socialpsychology and until recently
was held to be invariable across cultures. The FAE refers to people's inclination to seebehavior as the
result of dispositions corresponding to the apparent...show more content...
If Westerners are more inclined to believe that causality inheres in the object, they might be
expected to pay relatively more attention to the object than to the field. There is substantial
evidence that this is the case. Attention to the field as a whole on the part of East Asians suggests
that they might find it relatively difficult to separate the object from the field. This notion rests on
the concept of field dependence. Field dependence refers to a relative difficulty in separating
objects from the context in which they are located. One way of measuring field dependence is by
means of the rod–and–frame test. In this test, participants look into a long rectangular box at the end
of which is a rod. The rod and the box frame can be rotated independently of one another, and
participants are asked to state when the rod is vertical. Field dependence is indicated by the extent to
which the orientation of the frame influences judgments of the vertically of the rod. The judgments
of East Asian (mostly Chinese) participants have been shown to be more field dependent than those
of American participant. In a direct test of whether East Asians pay more attention to the field than
Westerners do, Japanese and American participants saw underwater scenes that included one or more
focal fish (i.e., fish that were larger and faster moving than other objects in the scene) among many
other objects, including smaller fish, small animals, plants, rocks, and coral. When asked to recall
what they had just viewed, the Japanese and American participants reported equivalent amounts of
detail about the focal fish, but the Japanese reported far more detail about almost everything else in
the background and made many more references to interactions between focal fish and background
objects. After watching the scenes, the participants were shown a focal fish either on the
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Causal Attribution Error

  • 1. Causal Attribution Error Psychologists inside the perceptive science have for a long time believed that casual reasoning procedures such as fundamental labels are the same in every culture. Although identifying that the content of causal beliefs can differ widely across cultures, psychologists have assumed that the ways in which people come to make their causal judgments are essentially the same, and therefore that they tend to make the same sorts of inferential errors. A case in point is the fundamental attribution error, or FAE, a phenomenon that is of central importance to socialpsychology and until recently was held to be invariable across cultures. The FAE refers to people's inclination to seebehavior as the result of dispositions corresponding to the apparent...show more content... If Westerners are more inclined to believe that causality inheres in the object, they might be expected to pay relatively more attention to the object than to the field. There is substantial evidence that this is the case. Attention to the field as a whole on the part of East Asians suggests that they might find it relatively difficult to separate the object from the field. This notion rests on the concept of field dependence. Field dependence refers to a relative difficulty in separating objects from the context in which they are located. One way of measuring field dependence is by means of the rod–and–frame test. In this test, participants look into a long rectangular box at the end of which is a rod. The rod and the box frame can be rotated independently of one another, and participants are asked to state when the rod is vertical. Field dependence is indicated by the extent to which the orientation of the frame influences judgments of the vertically of the rod. The judgments of East Asian (mostly Chinese) participants have been shown to be more field dependent than those of American participant. In a direct test of whether East Asians pay more attention to the field than Westerners do, Japanese and American participants saw underwater scenes that included one or more focal fish (i.e., fish that were larger and faster moving than other objects in the scene) among many other objects, including smaller fish, small animals, plants, rocks, and coral. When asked to recall what they had just viewed, the Japanese and American participants reported equivalent amounts of detail about the focal fish, but the Japanese reported far more detail about almost everything else in the background and made many more references to interactions between focal fish and background objects. After watching the scenes, the participants were shown a focal fish either on the Get more content on HelpWriting.net