CPSY 4341 Exam 3 with complete
solutions passed
Intersensory - correct answer ✔✔Involving two or more sensory systems (looking at and
smelling something at the same time)
Recalibration - correct answer ✔✔Reframing a tension so that the contradiction between
opposing needs disappears // Basketball video! Prism glasses messed up the player's vision at
first, but their vision recalibrated/adjusted to the new vision and they played successfully with
them
Face perception - correct answer ✔✔-Visual acuity of newborn is best with high contrast images
-Stimuli with more elements on the upper part (e.g. 2 eyes vs. one mouth) are preferred b/c of
presence of more receptors, and higher sensitivity part of the retina that perceives the upper
visual field
-Infants as young as 9 mo look longer at schematic (normal) moving face
-Prefer normal to scrambled face (high contrast and face-like are preferences for the first ½ year
of life)
Scanning - correct answer ✔✔-Very young infants look at areas of high contrast
-1 mo old: scan perimeter of shapes, begin to refine to high contrast and eyes (shadows under
chin, on top of head, by eyes...)
-By 2 mo old: scan perimeters of shapes and interiors of shapes, the "triangle" (eyes, nose, top
of head, eyes, nose, eyes, nose...)
Caricature - correct answer ✔✔An exaggerated portrayal of one's features; researchers found
the exaggeration of salient features (big noses, interesting piercings...) in caricatures helps
college students identify classmates OVER line drawings!!
, Scent (smell) memory - correct answer ✔✔Theres a neuroanatomical relationship that exists
between olfaction and the neural substrates of emotion, odors can be harnessed to induce
emotional and physiological responses that can improve human health and wellbeing.
Hippocampus - correct answer ✔✔A neural center located in the limbic system that helps
process explicit memories for storage.
Orthonasal olfaction - correct answer ✔✔The detection of an odor through the nostrils by
sniffing or inhalation
Contrast - correct answer ✔✔Dramatic difference between lighting in images that makes it
clearer to understand for infants. Infants prefer dark blobs on light backgrounds, more face-like
Top-heavy - correct answer ✔✔Newborns prefer stimuli with more elements in upper part
regardless of them being face-like (I.e. 2 eyes over on top over one mouth on bottom...) Needs a
high contrast border to have a top-heavy bias (hairline)
-For this preference they have to be able to perceive the stimulus as face-like!
Protrusion - correct answer ✔✔Something sticking out AKA a bulge, when researchers show
infants lighter blobs on darker backgrounds it looks less face-like and less interesting. Babies
prefer dark blobs on light backgrounds.
ASD - correct answer ✔✔-Diminished orientation towards faces
-Impaired eye contact
-Deficits in face processing and recognition
-Pref encoding for features (prefer bottom of face compared to top, unique compared to
neurotypical kids, look at eyes much less than neurotypical kids, prefer mouths)
-Bias toward detailed face info over global face processing
solutions passed
Intersensory - correct answer ✔✔Involving two or more sensory systems (looking at and
smelling something at the same time)
Recalibration - correct answer ✔✔Reframing a tension so that the contradiction between
opposing needs disappears // Basketball video! Prism glasses messed up the player's vision at
first, but their vision recalibrated/adjusted to the new vision and they played successfully with
them
Face perception - correct answer ✔✔-Visual acuity of newborn is best with high contrast images
-Stimuli with more elements on the upper part (e.g. 2 eyes vs. one mouth) are preferred b/c of
presence of more receptors, and higher sensitivity part of the retina that perceives the upper
visual field
-Infants as young as 9 mo look longer at schematic (normal) moving face
-Prefer normal to scrambled face (high contrast and face-like are preferences for the first ½ year
of life)
Scanning - correct answer ✔✔-Very young infants look at areas of high contrast
-1 mo old: scan perimeter of shapes, begin to refine to high contrast and eyes (shadows under
chin, on top of head, by eyes...)
-By 2 mo old: scan perimeters of shapes and interiors of shapes, the "triangle" (eyes, nose, top
of head, eyes, nose, eyes, nose...)
Caricature - correct answer ✔✔An exaggerated portrayal of one's features; researchers found
the exaggeration of salient features (big noses, interesting piercings...) in caricatures helps
college students identify classmates OVER line drawings!!
, Scent (smell) memory - correct answer ✔✔Theres a neuroanatomical relationship that exists
between olfaction and the neural substrates of emotion, odors can be harnessed to induce
emotional and physiological responses that can improve human health and wellbeing.
Hippocampus - correct answer ✔✔A neural center located in the limbic system that helps
process explicit memories for storage.
Orthonasal olfaction - correct answer ✔✔The detection of an odor through the nostrils by
sniffing or inhalation
Contrast - correct answer ✔✔Dramatic difference between lighting in images that makes it
clearer to understand for infants. Infants prefer dark blobs on light backgrounds, more face-like
Top-heavy - correct answer ✔✔Newborns prefer stimuli with more elements in upper part
regardless of them being face-like (I.e. 2 eyes over on top over one mouth on bottom...) Needs a
high contrast border to have a top-heavy bias (hairline)
-For this preference they have to be able to perceive the stimulus as face-like!
Protrusion - correct answer ✔✔Something sticking out AKA a bulge, when researchers show
infants lighter blobs on darker backgrounds it looks less face-like and less interesting. Babies
prefer dark blobs on light backgrounds.
ASD - correct answer ✔✔-Diminished orientation towards faces
-Impaired eye contact
-Deficits in face processing and recognition
-Pref encoding for features (prefer bottom of face compared to top, unique compared to
neurotypical kids, look at eyes much less than neurotypical kids, prefer mouths)
-Bias toward detailed face info over global face processing
