Ella w6 - (reliable) Facial Expression's

Question 1

emotional expression

What is reliability?

Answer 1

Reliability for emotional expression is supported when emotions from the same category are perceived and expressed in the same way.

For example, each facial expression should represent a single identifiable emotion with little variation between them.

Question 2

For reliability

What kind of task gives partial support for reliability

Answer 2

Free labelling task

Question 3

How did the free labelling task work

Answer 3

Asked particiapnts to label a facial expression with an emotion

Question 4

For reliability

What was the results of the free labelling task

Answer 4

There was correlation between particpants of how they labled each facial expression

While there was significant variabilty the similarities were greater than chance

partial support for reliability

Question 5

Against reliability

Which variable is evidence against reliability?

Answer 5

Context or contextual cues

Question 6

Against reliability

What did researchers report when comparing ‘floating faces’ only, with those faces in a larger context ?

Answer 6

Researchers found that facial expressioned were perceived differently when context was added to the task.

To be reliable facial expression should be perceived uniformly with out their emotional valance dependent on context.