PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Cinnamon Roll, Cheese Sandwich, Mother Teresa
11 Apr 2013
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Big events are expected to have big causal relationships. Brain assumes like objects are grouped together. Faces: a special form of pattern recognition. Special region of brain evolved to recognize patterns in faces fusiform facial area. Holy toast (holy mother of mary on grilled cheese sold for 28000 in ebay) and pareidollia patterns of facial recognition seen in a variety of random stimuli. Coding and interpreting energy from the world. Face processing and experience (even though pic of clinton young and old, people assume young face is al gore because of previous knowledge) Own-race effect: people able to differentiate faces from own cultures better: the value of face processing. Humans sensitive to facial hues fertility. Judging face attractiveness there seems to be a general consensus in attractiveness even babies have similar consensus as adults for attractiveness of faces. Faces can give insight to mental and emotional wellbeing of people.
