PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Blindsight, Social Exclusion, Olfaction

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Focus on vocabulary and language ill will . If you feel ill will toward someone, you are hostile or unfriendly to that person. Because of her prosopagnosia (face blindness), heather sellers does not recognize the faces of people she has encountered previously and thus will not dislike them (feel ill will toward them) even if they have annoyed her on previous occasions. In addition, her inability to recognize and acknowledge friends and acquaintances sometimes creates the impression that she is superior or emotionally distant (snobby or aloof). What is interesting about this case is that sellers can process incoming sensory information but has trouble organizing and interpreting sensory input about faces. As myers notes, she has normal sensation but her perception is not working properly when it comes to faces. A frog could starve to death knee-deep in motionless flies. But let one zoom by and the frog"s bug detector cells snap awake.