Deck 5: Reading Faces and Bodies

Question 1

Todorov et al. (2005)compared the faces of winners and runner-ups in US congressional elections and found what?

A) The difference in ratings of attractiveness predicted margin of victory.
B) The difference in ratings of aggression predicted margin of victory.
C) The difference in ratings of compassion predicted margin of victory.
D) The difference in ratings of competency predicted margin of victory.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true?

A) People with Asperger's syndrome have difficulties in rating faces for trustworthiness.
B) Patients with congenital prosopagnosia have difficulties in rating faces for trustworthiness.
C) Patients with lesions of the amygdala have difficulties in rating faces for trustworthiness.
D) Aggressive people have difficulties in rating faces for trustworthiness.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which pathway of the brain is primarily associated with face perception?

A) Dorsal visual stream
B) Ventral visual stream
C) The limbic loop
D) The midbrain dopaminergic pathway

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which study coined the phrase 'what is beautiful is good'?

A) Buss (1989)
B) Nisbett & Wilson (1977)
C) Dion et al. (1972)
D) Costa & McCrae (1985)

Question 5

Who developed a test for mirror self-recognition?

A) Gross et al. (1972)
B) Gallup (1970)
C) Baron-Cohen et al. (1985)
D) Bruce & Young (1986)

Question 6

Who has proposed the expertise hypothesis of FFA specialization?

A) Haxby et al. (2000)
B) Gauthier et al. (1999)
C) Kanwisher et al. (1997)
D) Grossman et al. (2000)

Question 7

Who proposed a cognitive model of face processing?

A) Haxby et al. (2000)
B) Bruce & Young (1986)
C) Gross et al. (1972)
D) Rolls & Tovee (1995)

Question 8

According to Jellema et al. (2000) how might the coding of intentional versus accidental actions be achieved by neurons in the STS?

A) By increasing the firing rate for an action when the locus of attention is directed towards that action
B) By storing a learned vocabulary of familiar actions
C) By linking gaze, head, and posture information together
D) By linking auditory and visual properties of actions together

Question 9

According to simulation theory which parts of the brain are particularly important for recognizing facial expressions?

A) Intra-parietal sulcus
B) Sensory-motor cortex
C) Superior temporal sulcus
D) Anterior temporal lobes

Question 10

According to the model of Haxby et al. (2000) which part of the brain is important for recognizing facial expressions?

A) Fusiform face area
B) Superior temporal sulcus
C) Orbito-frontal cortex
D) Somatosensory cortex

Question 11

How is the difference between the 'occipital face area' (OFA) and the 'fusiform face area' (FFA) best characterized?

A) The FFA responds to physical changes to facial stimuli but the OFA responds to changes in identity.
B) The OFA responds to moving faces but the FFA responds to static faces.
C) The FFA responds to moving faces but the OFA responds to static faces.
D) The OFA responds to physical changes to facial stimuli but the FFA responds to changes in identity.

Question 12

In the statistical analysis of Oosterhof & Todorov (2008) which two dimensions were identified as offering the best classification of traits from faces?

A) Dominance and trustworthiness
B) Attractiveness and trustworthiness
C) Dominance and neuroticism
D) Attractiveness and neuroticism

Question 13

In the study of ice hockey players by Carre & McCormick (2008) what facial characteristic was found to correlate with aggressive behavior?

A) Frowning
B) Width-to-height ratio of the face
C) Relative separation of the eyes
D) Relative length of the nose

Question 14

Other members of the same species are referred to by what term?

A) Tegmentals
B) Phylogens
C) Conspecifics
D) Anthropods

Question 15

Which of the following statements is characteristic of acquired prosopagnosia?

A) They are unable to tell the sex or gender of a face
B) They are better at indentifying upside down faces relative to controls
C) They are unable to match lip movements to heard speech
D) They can show a normal skin conductance response to familiar faces

Question 16

Which of the following statements about the role of the Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) in face perception is false?

A) Important for action perception
B) Important for computing an invariant facial identity
C) Important for detecting eye gaze
D) Integrates visual and auditory speech

Question 17

What is a 'greeble'?

A) A made-up object used to study within-category visual recognition
B) A type of neuron found in the superior temporal sulcus
C) A hypothetical unit in models of face recognition that respond to particular individuals
D) A face with the internal features inverted

Question 18

What is one of the differences between the extra-striate body area (EBA) and the fusiform body-area (FBA)?

A) The EBA responds more to whole bodies relative to body parts than the FBA.
B) The FBA responds more to hands relative to other body parts than the EBA.
C) The EBA responds more to hands relative to other body parts than the FBA.
D) The FBA responds more to whole bodies relative to body parts than the EBA.

Question 19

What is physiognomy?

A) An attempt to match facial characteristics to psychological traits
B) A view of the brain that involves strict specialization and localization of function
C) The study of hormonal effects on behaviour
D) The study of facial development

Question 20

What is the defining functional characteristic of the extra-striate body area (EBA)?

A) It responds more to real bodies than 'stick men' bodies
B) It responds more to bodies and faces than objects
C) It responds more to bodies than faces or objects
D) It responds more to upright bodies than upside down bodies

Question 21

What is the halo effect?

A) The correlation between religious beliefs and certain facial characteristics
B) The idea that notions of attractiveness have been selected for on the basis of biological fitness
C) The correlation between trustworthiness and certain facial characteristics
D) A person who is rated positively on one dimension tends to be rated positively in other dimensions.

Question 22

What study first described a region named the extra-striate body area?

A) Todorov et al. (2008)
B) Kanwisher et al. (1996)
C) Downing et al. (2001)
D) Perrett et al. (1992)

Question 23

What technique is typically used to study biological motion perception?

A) Factor analysis
B) Point-light displays
C) Gaze cueing
D) Electromyography

Question 24

What term is used to denote a disorder of face perception?

A) Dysgraphia
B) Prosopagnosia
C) Dystonia
D) Aphasia

Question 25

Which brain region may be particularly important for detecting biological motion?

A) Extra-striate body area
B) Superior temporal sulcus
C) Intra-parietal sulcus
D) Premotor cortex

Question 26

Which of the following is not part of the 'core' system of face processing identified by Haxby et al. (2000)?

A) Superior temporal sulcus
B) Fusiform gyrus
C) Inferior occipital gyri
D) Anterior temporal lobes

Question 27

Which of the following statements about Capgras syndrome is true?

A) Strangers feel like close relatives in disguise
B) They show an abnormal skin conductance response to unfamiliar faces
C) They claim that familiar people appear visually distorted
D) They do not show the normal skin conductance response to familiar faces

Question 28

Which of the following statements about the response properties of neurons in the STS is false?

A) They respond to observed eye direction
B) They respond to biological motion
C) They respond to both the sight and sound of vocalisations
D) They do not respond to observed head and body orientation

Question 29

Proto-imperative pointing conveys what meaning?

A) Give me that!'
B) Look at that!'
C) No'
D) Yes'