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KEY FEATURES: A student-friendly writing style makes the content more approachable for readers to retain. Personal stories from fellows of the Association of Psychological Science (APS) convey to readers that even the most distinguished experts make mistakes that can be avoided through examination. Critical thinking questions give students the opportunity to reflect on preceding essays. Stories from all areas of psychology appeal to learners beyond subfields of psychology.
A Third-Variable Problem in Face Recognition
A Third-Variable Problem in Face Recognition
I study learning in visual-object recognition, in particular, how people change how they process objects as they gain expertise with a category. One interesting hallmark of expertise is how face processing differs from the way we recognize most objects, in a so-called holistic manner. If you ask someone to make a judgment about part of a face, let’s say, whether the eyes are the ones of their friend Sally, and you tell them to ignore the mouth in the picture because you may have changed it, they cannot do this very well. People are unable to process Sally’s eyes independently of the mouth they are shown with, and so we say ...
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