The Authors of Your Text Present a Study by Masuda

question 125

Multiple Choice

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. What implications does this study have for the idea of analytic and holistic thinking styles?

• A) It suggests that holistic thinking styles are better than analytic ones.
• B) It suggests that analytic thinking styles are more primitive than holistic ones.
• C) It implies that holistic thinking leads people to more carefully consider social context.
• D) It implies that analytic thinking is erroneous in social contexts.

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Definitions:

Recall

The act of retrieving information or memories from the past without the use of explicit cues or stimuli.

Decay Theory

Theory stating that when an individual learns something new, a neurochemical memory trace forms, but over time this trace disintegrates; suggests that the passage of time always increases forgetting.

Neurochemical Memory

Refers to how memories are stored and retrieved through the action of neurotransmitters and neural pathways in the brain.

Memory Trace

The physical change in the brain, presumably involving synaptic modifications, that represents the memory of an experience.