Feature of Cross-Culture in the Interacting Neighbors Model: Neighborhood-Consistency Effects
Mingliang Zhang · 2012
The verification task is employed to investigate whether there is a neighborhood-consistency effect in the single-digit multiplication. It goes further in the expansion of cross-culture on the interacting neighbors model which was put forward recently, and examine whether this model possesses cross-culture or not. The results showed that both the operand-order effect and the neighborhood-consistency effects were significant. That the operandorder effect is significant shows that the special experience of learning the typical Chinese multiplication table affects participants in Chinese Mainland. That is, Mainland Chinese participants have specificity in single-digit multiplication. That the neighborhood-consistency effect is found in participants of Mainland Chinese shows the feature of cross-culture in the interacting neighbors’ model.