Situational assessment method of the Chinese people’s holistic thinking characteristics and their application

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2021.01299

Abstract

Abstract:

Developed a new situational assessment method of Chinese thinking characteristics, which was applied to the study of the relationship between holistic thinking characteristics and creativity tendency and tested its reliability and validity. The new method selected the idiom riddles embodying the typical cultural artistic conception and Chinese thinking characteristics as the materials, and used the virtual reality technology to construct an idiom riddle cultural park in which these idioms were designed as situational visible scenarios illustrating their meanings. The corpus of idioms is established by recording the idioms reported in the scene and encoded the types of thinking characteristics of the idioms as a measure of the holistic thinking of the participants. The reliability and validity analysis based on the test data showed that the holistic thinking idiom test system performs well in reliability and validity. The correlation analysis between holistic thinking and creativity tendency showed that holistic thinking is negatively correlated with curiosity in creativity tendency. The study proved for the first time that it is feasible to use virtual reality technology to reconstruct the traditional cultural situation in order to realize the situational assessment of Chinese thinking characteristics. It suggested the application value of the situational assessment based on virtual reality technology in the related research of future.

Key words: idiom, holistic thinking, creativity, virtual reality, ecological validity

KE Xiaoxiao, QI Huizi, LIANG Jiahui, JIN Xinyuan, GAO Jie, ZHANG Mingxia, WANG Yamin. (2021). Situational assessment method of the Chinese people’s holistic thinking characteristics and their application. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 53(12), 1299-1309.

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Scale	Dimensions	Main content
AHS scale	Causality	Emphasis on the relationship between the goal and the environment, pay attention to the interaction
	Contradiction	Seek compromise in the face of conflict
	Change	Phenomena are non-static and constantly changing
	Attention	Focus on the relationship between goal and goal/goal and environment
Chinese Thinking Style Scale	Relation	The world is interconnected
	Change	The world is changing
	Contradiction	The world is a unity full of contradictions

Scale	Dimensions	Main content
AHS scale	Causality	Emphasis on the relationship between the goal and the environment, pay attention to the interaction
	Contradiction	Seek compromise in the face of conflict
	Change	Phenomena are non-static and constantly changing
	Attention	Focus on the relationship between goal and goal/goal and environment
Chinese Thinking Style Scale	Relation	The world is interconnected
	Change	The world is changing
	Contradiction	The world is a unity full of contradictions

Classification	Operational Definition
Reasonable Idiom	Conforms to the environmental information or the psychological and behavioral characteristics of the participants.
Integral Idiom	Embody the content of the whole environment and the participants’ overall mood experience.
Specific Idiom	Embody the details of clues, the specific actions of the participants and their immediate experience.
Superficial Idiom	Simply describe the appearance of things and have no deep meaning; Have deep meaning, but only superficial and concrete meaning is expressed in this scenario.
Connotative Idiom	Express the atmosphere; In addition to the surface meaning, the participants can experience a deeper extended meaning in the environment.
Subjective Idiom	Embody the behavior, emotion, feeling and evaluation of the subject
Objective Idiom	Only embody the environmental information and do not involve the participants’ subjective experience

Classification	Operational Definition
Reasonable Idiom	Conforms to the environmental information or the psychological and behavioral characteristics of the participants.
Integral Idiom	Embody the content of the whole environment and the participants’ overall mood experience.
Specific Idiom	Embody the details of clues, the specific actions of the participants and their immediate experience.
Superficial Idiom	Simply describe the appearance of things and have no deep meaning; Have deep meaning, but only superficial and concrete meaning is expressed in this scenario.
Connotative Idiom	Express the atmosphere; In addition to the surface meaning, the participants can experience a deeper extended meaning in the environment.
Subjective Idiom	Embody the behavior, emotion, feeling and evaluation of the subject
Objective Idiom	Only embody the environmental information and do not involve the participants’ subjective experience

Idiom	Integral	Specific	Superficial	Connotative	Objective	Subjective
Full of life	√			√		√
Paint a snake with feet		√	√		√
Draw a circle on the ground to serve as a prison		√		√	√
Have nothing but the bare walls in one's house	√			√	√
Green hills and clear water	√		√			√