Cognitive Development

Question 1

What are the three processes involved in facial recognition according to Cohen?

Answer 1

1. face identification: looking at a person’s face and knowing who it is
2. face recognition: knowing the face is one we have seen before
3. face recall: when, from memory, we try to verbally describe a face, draw, or form a mental image of the face. Putting the stored mental image if a face into words for the description shows how difficult it is to convert the stored ‘whole’ into a list of ‘features’.

Question 2

What are people better at (identification, recognition, recall)?

Answer 2

Recognition is easier than identification, and ability to recognise deteriorates over time.

Question 3

How did Bahrick investigate differences in recognition and identification?

Answer 3

Used a sample of teachers to investigate [—] at different time intervals. They were asked to recognise/identify faces of present and former students when they were shown sets of five faces, four of which were distracters. They had to identify the known student and name them.