2022_심화영어독해와작문

41 And if I give you three things to think about―a cow, a cat, and grass―which two do you think go together? If you’re an East Asian, you’re likely to say, “Well, the cow goes with the grass because cows eat grass.” If you’re a Westerner, you’re likely to say, “Well, the cow goes with the cat because they’re both animals.” There’s also a clever experiment conducted by a social psychologist, where he asks people to draw a circle representing themselves and other circles representing their closest acquaintances. Then they’re told to draw connections between themselves and each of those people, and to draw connections between each of those people to the extent that they’re connected to each other. The picture you get from Americans is going to have their own circle in the center, usually larger than those of their acquaintances. East Asians, however, are likely to have their own circle off to the side, and it will be the same size as those of their acquaintances, or perhaps even smaller. The self is a really big deal in the West. In the East, the self is just one of many. That’s quite interesting. There seems to be a very different conception of the self in the East in general. That’s right. And these social differences translate into cognitive differences. Perception and reasoning in the East tend to be holistic, taking into account the entire context as well as the relationships between the context and individuals or objects. And in the West, they tend to be analytic, focusing on the most central object, which is the most important one to deal with or the most important one to control. Compare and Contrast Q3 How do East Asian and Western approaches to categorization differ, as illustrated by the example provided? Find a word which means: • connected with conscious mental processes: acquaintance off to the side conception translate into cognitive perception holistic take into account analytic Lee: Nisbett: The cow goes with the cat because they’re both animals. 5 10 15 20 25