Development of face perception

Question 1

Social cognition

Answer 1

encoding, storage, retrieval and processing of information relating to conspecifics

Question 2

Ability to recognise faces emerge - evolutionary

Answer 2

innate template of the human face, predisposing us to good face perception

Question 3

ability to recognise faces emerge - experiential

Answer 3

we learn to see faces as faces

Question 4

Fantz (1961-1963)

Answer 4

How long will new-borns look at these stimuli? Stimuli matched for contrast.

Question 5

Results of Fantz

Answer 5

One month old infants showed no evidence of preferring a natural arrangement of the features of a face. 2 month olds looked longer at the natural arrangement than at either of the two scrambled arrangements.