In the context of the study by Masuda and Nisbett (2001) on attention, people in Western cultures tend to engage in context-independent and processes by focusing on a salient object independently from the context in which it is embedded

Analytic Perception

Explanation:

Analytic perception is the studying of something through visual thinking to create perception by dividing it into individual section.Whole thing is split into section so that more and in-dept information can be gained through division.

According to the question people who followed western culture were involved analytical perception for viewing things as they observed salient feature of things rather than seeing it as whole.This gave independent and in-depth information.

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