PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture 7: 7- Form Perception
Document Summary
Ambiguous stimuli and perceptual constancies: depending on what you consider the foreground and background the image differs. Big events are expected to have big casual explanations. Faces are a special form of pattern recognition. We have an innate preference to look at faces. The innate preference is influenced by experience. Two strategies for face processing: configural: seeing the whole face together, seeing it as a whole, featural: seeing the features individually. Composite face effect: when the faces are aligned it is harder to determine whether they are from the same face or not. The inversion effect: identification of inverted faces is less accurate. Hollow face effect: the video shown in lecture showed that once the mast was rotated a face was seen in the hollow, this is due to the innate preference for humans to see faces.
