Week 4: Facial Perception Flashcards
1
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Facial Perception
A
The ability to rapidly recognize and understand information from faces
2
Q
holistic process
A
faces are more than the sum of its parts
3
Q
Part-whole effect
A
people are better at identifying faces in the context of the whole face than from parts of the face
4
Q
Inversion effect
A
Faces are recognized better when they are upright when inverted
5
Q
Composite effect
A
Even when attempting to process only part of the face, people experience interference from other parts
6
Q
prosopagnosia
A
highly specific inability to recognize faces
7
Q
face in crowd effect
A
threatening or angry faces are detected more efficiently among a crown of distractor faces than happy/non-threatening faces
