PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kit Kat, Cheese Sandwich, Pareidolia
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Look at monument up close, just a mountain on mars. Naturally put this together as a face. Big events are expected to have big causal explanations. President of kumar is targeted in an assassination attempt, later at the hospital : he fully recovers, he dies from his injuries. More people from option 2 will believe there is a conspiracy going on. Larger event, more you are craving a big explanation for what"s going on. Anything that sort of looks like a face we will recognize. Grilled cheese saw the virgin mary: famous kit kat bar. An innate preference for faces is influenced by experience. Configural: not individual features analysed in isolation but whole face together, top-down. Featural: bottom-up feature analysis processing: see a person"s face, carefully analysing individual features of it (both their eyes, nose mouth) Look at top half of face only, ignore bottom half. Made more difficult, presented with a whole face, bottom halves are always different.
