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1. how certain types of face suggest ideas about the person’s character
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A. Unlike photographs, real faces are three-dimensional and dynamic and these characteristics yield a great deal of additional information. Face recognition in natural situations can exploit a much wider and richer range of cues and is therefore more likely to be successful. B. The incidence of errors varies with the degree of familiarity. Identification failures for faces that are well known do sometimes occur, but they are usually temporary errors due to misleading circumstances, such as changes of appearance, seeing someone in an unusual context or poor visibility. C. We generally describe age, height, build and any very distinctive features (e.g. ‘curly red hair’, ‘beard’ or ‘glasses’) rather than giving a comprehensive description of the face. However, more complete and accurate recall is sometimes required, as when witnesses are asked to describe suspects to the police or to construct a photofit picture. D. There are some evidence that memory representations of faces are influenced by stereotypes. It appears that people do believe that facial appearance is linked to personality traits and this means that judgements may be biased by the physical appearance of a person. E. Subjects spend more time looking at some features when memorising a face; recognition is more disrupted by changing some features than by changing others; and a face with a highly distinctive feature is more easily recognised. Experiments suggest that features in the inner part of the face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are more important than features in the outer part (hair and face shape). F. On the whole, current research has little to say about why some people are better than others at remembering faces, and little to offer in the way of suggestions as to how we could train people to improve their face-recognition skills.
2. a reference to the variability in the factors used to identify a person
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A. Unlike photographs, real faces are three-dimensional and dynamic and these characteristics yield a great deal of additional information. Face recognition in natural situations can exploit a much wider and richer range of cues and is therefore more likely to be successful. B. The incidence of errors varies with the degree of familiarity. Identification failures for faces that are well known do sometimes occur, but they are usually temporary errors due to misleading circumstances, such as changes of appearance, seeing someone in an unusual context or poor visibility. C. We generally describe age, height, build and any very distinctive features (e.g. ‘curly red hair’, ‘beard’ or ‘glasses’) rather than giving a comprehensive description of the face. However, more complete and accurate recall is sometimes required, as when witnesses are asked to describe suspects to the police or to construct a photofit picture. D. There are some evidence that memory representations of faces are influenced by stereotypes. It appears that people do believe that facial appearance is linked to personality traits and this means that judgements may be biased by the physical appearance of a person. E. Subjects spend more time looking at some features when memorising a face; recognition is more disrupted by changing some features than by changing others; and a face with a highly distinctive feature is more easily recognised. Experiments suggest that features in the inner part of the face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are more important than features in the outer part (hair and face shape). F. On the whole, current research has little to say about why some people are better than others at remembering faces, and little to offer in the way of suggestions as to how we could train people to improve their face-recognition skills.
3. a reservation about the future usefulness of face recognition studies
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A. Unlike photographs, real faces are three-dimensional and dynamic and these characteristics yield a great deal of additional information. Face recognition in natural situations can exploit a much wider and richer range of cues and is therefore more likely to be successful. B. The incidence of errors varies with the degree of familiarity. Identification failures for faces that are well known do sometimes occur, but they are usually temporary errors due to misleading circumstances, such as changes of appearance, seeing someone in an unusual context or poor visibility. C. We generally describe age, height, build and any very distinctive features (e.g. ‘curly red hair’, ‘beard’ or ‘glasses’) rather than giving a comprehensive description of the face. However, more complete and accurate recall is sometimes required, as when witnesses are asked to describe suspects to the police or to construct a photofit picture. D. There are some evidence that memory representations of faces are influenced by stereotypes. It appears that people do believe that facial appearance is linked to personality traits and this means that judgements may be biased by the physical appearance of a person. E. Subjects spend more time looking at some features when memorising a face; recognition is more disrupted by changing some features than by changing others; and a face with a highly distinctive feature is more easily recognised. Experiments suggest that features in the inner part of the face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are more important than features in the outer part (hair and face shape). F. On the whole, current research has little to say about why some people are better than others at remembering faces, and little to offer in the way of suggestions as to how we could train people to improve their face-recognition skills.
4. situations in which remembering a face can be vitally important
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A. Unlike photographs, real faces are three-dimensional and dynamic and these characteristics yield a great deal of additional information. Face recognition in natural situations can exploit a much wider and richer range of cues and is therefore more likely to be successful. B. The incidence of errors varies with the degree of familiarity. Identification failures for faces that are well known do sometimes occur, but they are usually temporary errors due to misleading circumstances, such as changes of appearance, seeing someone in an unusual context or poor visibility. C. We generally describe age, height, build and any very distinctive features (e.g. ‘curly red hair’, ‘beard’ or ‘glasses’) rather than giving a comprehensive description of the face. However, more complete and accurate recall is sometimes required, as when witnesses are asked to describe suspects to the police or to construct a photofit picture. D. There are some evidence that memory representations of faces are influenced by stereotypes. It appears that people do believe that facial appearance is linked to personality traits and this means that judgements may be biased by the physical appearance of a person. E. Subjects spend more time looking at some features when memorising a face; recognition is more disrupted by changing some features than by changing others; and a face with a highly distinctive feature is more easily recognised. Experiments suggest that features in the inner part of the face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are more important than features in the outer part (hair and face shape). F. On the whole, current research has little to say about why some people are better than others at remembering faces, and little to offer in the way of suggestions as to how we could train people to improve their face-recognition skills.
5. the fact that some parts of the face may receive more attention than others
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A. Unlike photographs, real faces are three-dimensional and dynamic and these characteristics yield a great deal of additional information. Face recognition in natural situations can exploit a much wider and richer range of cues and is therefore more likely to be successful. B. The incidence of errors varies with the degree of familiarity. Identification failures for faces that are well known do sometimes occur, but they are usually temporary errors due to misleading circumstances, such as changes of appearance, seeing someone in an unusual context or poor visibility. C. We generally describe age, height, build and any very distinctive features (e.g. ‘curly red hair’, ‘beard’ or ‘glasses’) rather than giving a comprehensive description of the face. However, more complete and accurate recall is sometimes required, as when witnesses are asked to describe suspects to the police or to construct a photofit picture. D. There are some evidence that memory representations of faces are influenced by stereotypes. It appears that people do believe that facial appearance is linked to personality traits and this means that judgements may be biased by the physical appearance of a person. E. Subjects spend more time looking at some features when memorising a face; recognition is more disrupted by changing some features than by changing others; and a face with a highly distinctive feature is more easily recognised. Experiments suggest that features in the inner part of the face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are more important than features in the outer part (hair and face shape). F. On the whole, current research has little to say about why some people are better than others at remembering faces, and little to offer in the way of suggestions as to how we could train people to improve their face-recognition skills.
6. examples of how mistakes may arise when identifying a person
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A. Unlike photographs, real faces are three-dimensional and dynamic and these characteristics yield a great deal of additional information. Face recognition in natural situations can exploit a much wider and richer range of cues and is therefore more likely to be successful. B. The incidence of errors varies with the degree of familiarity. Identification failures for faces that are well known do sometimes occur, but they are usually temporary errors due to misleading circumstances, such as changes of appearance, seeing someone in an unusual context or poor visibility. C. We generally describe age, height, build and any very distinctive features (e.g. ‘curly red hair’, ‘beard’ or ‘glasses’) rather than giving a comprehensive description of the face. However, more complete and accurate recall is sometimes required, as when witnesses are asked to describe suspects to the police or to construct a photofit picture. D. There are some evidence that memory representations of faces are influenced by stereotypes. It appears that people do believe that facial appearance is linked to personality traits and this means that judgements may be biased by the physical appearance of a person. E. Subjects spend more time looking at some features when memorising a face; recognition is more disrupted by changing some features than by changing others; and a face with a highly distinctive feature is more easily recognised. Experiments suggest that features in the inner part of the face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are more important than features in the outer part (hair and face shape). F. On the whole, current research has little to say about why some people are better than others at remembering faces, and little to offer in the way of suggestions as to how we could train people to improve their face-recognition skills.
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