Human Growth and Development / Unit 9 HGD 1246 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Culture and Adolescent Cognition
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The idea
Culture shapes cognition: in a study by Masuda and Nisbett, Japanese participants encoded objects together with their backgrounds, while Americans encoded objects apart from context.
In practice
Chinese fraction names, "of four parts, one," possibly easing fraction learning.
Where people slip
In cultures that do not emphasize scientific reasoning, formal operations may not be observed at all.
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