face processing

Question 1

support for bruce and young’’s (1986) model of face processing

Answer 1

evidence for independence of face identity and facial expression skills: Bruce et al, 2000
faster to decide if it was the face of a politician than produce a name (Young et al, 1986)

Question 2

familiar face recognition

Answer 2

structural encoding –> face recognition units –> person identity nodes –> name generations

Question 3

unfamiliar face processing

Answer 3

structural encoding –> expression analysis –> facial speech analysis –> directed visual processing

Question 4

evidence for familiar vs unfamiliar face processing

Answer 4

familiar faces are recognised better form internal features than external features (Ellis et al, 1979)
Opposite true (Stacey et al, 2005)

Question 5

configural face processing (CITE)

Answer 5

perception of a face as a meaningful whole on the basis of relationships between facial features (Carey & Diamond, 1994)

Question 6

featural face processing (CITE)

Answer 6

process information in terms of component properties (Rhodes, 1988)
many approaches to facial recognition are based on a feautral approach

Question 7

prosopagnosia

Answer 7

failure to recognise familiar faces
they can recognise objects which leads to the view that there are different processing mechanisms for recognising faces and objects

Question 8

what is physignomy

Answer 8

reading personality traits from faces

Question 9

adolphis et al (1994)

Answer 9

amygdala plays an important role in recognising emotional facial expressions

Question 10

ekman & friesen (1971)

Answer 10

everyone has a universal understanding of 6 basic emotions

Question 11

campbell et al (1995)

Answer 11

children swithc to configural processing around age 10

Question 12

evidence for innate ability to recognise faces

Answer 12

2-7 week old babies look longer at mothers face than at strangers face (Carpenter, 1974)