Pascalis reading

Question 1

what categories can facial perception be divided into?

Answer 1

face traits and face states

Question 2

what are examples of face traits?

Answer 2

faceness, gender, species, race, aesthetics (attractive or unattractive)

Question 3

what is face state info used to process?

Answer 3

speech, emotional expressions, attention and intentions

Question 4

viewing a face triggers at least 2 automatic and fast processes. what are these?

Answer 4

categorization of the stimulus and recognition

Question 5

what is the inversion effect?

Answer 5

faces are recognized more accurately and faster when presented in their canonical orientation than when presented upside-down.

Question 6

as face expertise increases what else improves?

Answer 6

accuracy and speed for processing the info at the expense of processing the categorical info

Question 7

what did Levin find?

Answer 7

Caucasians recognized Caucasian faces better than African faces (own race recognition advantage: Adults are typically more proficient at recognizing faces from their own racial group, as opposed to faces from other racial groups.

Question 8

by what age do children have the same face space as young adults?

Answer 8

5

Question 9

what did Quinn et al study?

Answer 9

mother-reared 3 month olds looked longer at a novel female over a novel male face after habituation to a number of different male faces, but they showed no preference for novel male faces at testing after habituation to a number of different female faces. This asymmetry may reflect the possibility that female faces receive more visual attention than male faces.