Psychology 2210A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Emotional Contagion, Face Perception, Biological Motion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2210A/B
• Professor: Krista Macpherson

Document Summary

10. 1 detection of animacy recognizing conspecifics, predators, and prey is critical for adaptive behaviour biological motion and face perception are important for differentiation of animate, biological entities from inanimate objects. Faces over 4 days, a human intruder approached a nest and stood for 30 seconds and for. 15 second they touched the nest female mockingibrds rushed toward their nests increasingly faster as the days progressed on the 5th day, a new person approached and the birds reacted as they had on day. 1 over the 4 days, the birds came to identify the human who approached their nest and recognize them as an intruder birds used recognition of individual features, possibly within the face, to identify the intruders. Perceiving and discriminating faces human newborns look longer and orient towards images of faces than non-face human newborns look longer and orient towards images of faces than non-face patterns.