Psychology 3228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Facial Recognition System, Attachment Theory, Virilization

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3228
• Professor: Scott Mac Dougall- Shackleton

Document Summary

Objects move as wholes on continuous paths: no teleportation. Objects cannot occupy same space or pass through each other: no ghosts. Objects must contact each other to influence motion. Infants spend more time looking at face like objects than other shapes: studies have shown that objects that are similar to a face grab the attention of children compared to scrambled faces and blank faces. Realistic and simple faces elicit increased looking in newborns. 4 months olds more interested in realistic face. 2 processes of face recognition have bee proposed. Conspec: innate attentiveness to face like configuration, explains why newborn infants gravitate towards faces. Conlearn: development of attention to finer details, slower development with visual development and experiences with faces; infants are able to discriminate between familiar faces and others. Increased looking time for newborns to mother"s face. However, infants can be easily confused (eg. with wigs: suggests they attend to large features.