Face Perception Short Answers

Question 1

What is Holistic Processing?

Answer 1

Faces are processed as indecomposable wholes (they are processed as a whole).

Question 2

What are the 2 Possible Reasons we have Holistic Processing?

Answer 2

Humans have an innate face template for holistic coding, or face are the only homogenous stimuli that require fine-grained discrimination during the “key period”.

Question 3

What are the 3 Pieces of Evidence for the “Key Period” Explanation of Holistic Processing?

Answer 3

Infants spend more time tracking faces, can discriminate mother’s face from others, holistic processing breaks down without intensive exposure.

Question 4

What is the Perceptual Expertise Explanation for Holistic Processing?

Answer 4

Holistic Processing is due to automatised attention to whole objects.

Question 5

How can we Explain Perceptual Expertise?

Answer 5

With practice, non-face objects can be processed holistically - proven by Gauthier and Tarr.

Question 6

Who Proved Perceptual Expertise?

Answer 6

Gauthier and Tarr.

Question 7

What is the Other Race Effect?

Answer 7

People are better at recognising faces from their own race.

Question 8

How can we Diminish the Other Race Effect?

Answer 8

Increased contact with other races.