PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: False Alarm, Pareidolia
3 Apr 2017
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Dress blue and black vs. white and gold. A gold and white dress is in a shadow. Direct illumination on a black and blue dress. Probe went over mars, looking for landing site which took tons of photos of mars. Released it to public to get them interested in mars and space. One picture ha da huge face on it, it was actually a mountain range and not a face. Big events are expected to have big causal explanations. President of kumar is targeted in an assassination attempt. Later in the hospital: a. he fully recovers, b. he dies from his injuries. Groups of people were asked to say the likeliness of each scenario happening. Pareidolia making faces out of nothing, which gives emotion to inanimate objects. An innate preference for faces is influenced by experience. Babies will spend more time concentrating on the face upright than the face that is upside down.
