Prosopagnosia is a disorder that many people haven’t really heard of. It is a disorder in which an individual has an easy enough time processing facial feature but a hard time trying to recognize them. It can cause a lot of social difficulties with those around them. It can mainly be acquired by birth or through brain damage. Those with congenital or have had prosopagnosia since birth can find that they have a difficulty with not just recognizing faces but as well as sensory and cognition functions as well as having problems with recognizing certain objects. The disorder can sometimes make it difficult to live with because they are unable to recognize face or objects and they need to find new ways to try to recognize people. It can make having …show more content…
All the students were asked permission to use their photograph in the study being done. The students being used had glasses or normal eye sight and had no neurological disorders. The participants had gone through two neurological testing to screen them and see their ability to recognize unfamiliar faces. Once the screening was done there was 44 of the participants who where part of the control group, all the participants had no problem with recognizing unfamiliar faces. Whereas the 14 other participants were the group who had seem to have the most difficulty with recognizing unfamiliar faces. They would be the ones whose scores would be tested more thoroughly.
The 14 participants who had difficulty with recognizing unfamiliar faces were put through a semi-structured interview with a professional psychologist who had classified the participants as having congenital prosopagnosia. They had then been screened for and second time for congenital prosopagnosia in which case it had moved to ten participants instead of the original
1.There will be two groups, the control and experimental groups. Each group will have the same amount of participants with equal numbers of boys and girls. The first group will be the control group(rest). The second group will be the experimental group(exercise).
The authors’ interest in the application of priming to visual perception stems from a lack of empirical research done in this particular field. Priming a certain social identity (race, gender, age, or occupation) and its impact on cognition (in the form of performance on verbal and math tests) has received sufficient theoretical and empirical attention (Shih, Ambady, Richeson, Fujita, and Gray). The authors want to explore the unique situation of mixed race priming. The premise they base their research on is that visual search is important to everyday functioning (Wolfe, 1998), since social recognition, a necessary tool for social communication and survival. Another finding they base their hypothesis on is that Whites detect a Black face among a set of White faces faster than a White face among Black faces (Levin 1996,2000). Levin proposed the race-feature theory off his findings: “Whites code Black faces according to race-specifying features”.
In Psychology, there are a wide range of disorders, all of which disrupt a person’s life at varying levels. As a result of this, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used to diagnose a person with a certain disorder and determine the extent to which the disorder affects their ability to function in society. However, the DSM-IV does not address all of the disorders that people can be troubled with. There are four axes to the DSM-IV: axis I which takes into account clinical disorders, axis II looks at personality disorders, axis III diagnoses acute medical conditions, axis IV is psychosocial and environmental factors and axis V determines a person’s ability to function in society. Agnosia is one of the many disorders that cannot be classified under the any of the axes of the DSM-IV although it is a brain disorder. A specific type of agnosia that has recently been heavily represented in the media is prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is a mysterious disorder as the etiology is unknown and there is much variance to the disorder by the individual. As the degree in which this disorder affects the lives of people cannot be determined using typical methods, to what extent does prosopagnosia affect a person’s life?
Neurologically, the amygdala (which associate emotions to recognized faces) might be affected. The neural disconnection creates in the patient a sense that the face he/she is observing is not the face of the person to whom it belongs. Therefore, that face lacks the familiarity and recognition usually associated with it, which results in “derealization” and disconnection from the environment. If the patient sees his/her own face, he/she might perceive no association between the face and his/her sense of “Self”. Medicine indicates that Cotard's syndrome is associated with lesions in the parietal lobe and brain atrophy, especially of the median frontal
The independent variables in this experiment are the time and the foils presented to the subject. The dependent variable is the discrimination index. The...
The loss of vision during life or being born with the condition affects the psychology of a person. One form of psychological problem exhibited by those living with visual impairment is depression [4]. This depression is more common in patients who lose their sight in the course of their lives rather than those born with blindness. The reason for this is the perceived lack of opportunities for them and the challenges of having to adjust living with visual impairment. Additionally, lowered or lack of self-esteem can take effect in a person’s mind who is subjected to any form of visual impairment. The self-esteem issue comes about as a result of the pressure to fit in among social groups and the perceived problem of having to seek help from others
Imagine a researcher requesting you to copy a picture. It's a simple task. You move your instrument of illustration across a sheet of blank paper with ease, glancing from the given picture to your own sketch in progress. When you are finished you observe a satisfactory replica and feel a sense of accomplishment and proficiency with the similarity you have achieved between picture and sketch. Then the researcher queries whether you can tell him what you have drawn. You search the interconnected lines, the edges, and the shapes of your sketch but cannot answer what the picture represents. Finally, an explanation is given. You have just drawn a house- a simple triangle resting on top of a square. Your sense of accomplishment is quickly replaced with a feeling of despair.
[19]Tranel, D., Damasio, H., Damasio, A.R., 1995. Double dissociation between overt and covert recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 7, 425–432.
In the late 1930 a neurologist named Gerstmann published an article on symptoms similar to nonverbal learning disorder. He called named the disorder Gerstmann syndrome. According to Wikipedia Gertmann syndrome is a neuropsychological disorder which is characterized by a group of symptoms that entails a present of a lesion is located in a particular part of the brain. Characteristics of the syndrome included the following deficits: right/left orientation, acalculia, finger agnosia, and agraphia.
The most predominant feature of the human face is eyes. When talking to a person our eyes meet there eyes; the way that people identify each other is through eyes; eyes even have the power to communicate on its own. Eliezer identified people buy there eyes and knew their emotions through their eyes. “Across the aisle, a beautiful women with dark hair and dreamy eyes. I had
Describe the differences in the results between the groups in the study and support your description with examples from the study
Glaucoma is a group of eye disorders that cause blindness by hurting the optic nerve, which is the large nerve that is responsible for vision. In glaucoma, the optic nerve damage is related to a change in the fluid pressure that circulates around the eyeball. In many cases, Glaucoma occurs when the eye's fluid pressure is high, but it can also occur when the pressure is measured as normal.
Annie Proulx’s “Job History” and “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane contain faceless characters. The characters in both stories do not have any personality in them. Annie Proulx and Stephen Crane create these characters with two different story techniques. Their characters do not appeal to the empathy of the reader because the reader is prevented from having an emotional connection with them thus, inducing the facelessness of the characters.
A third of the participants are put into the control group which is prompted that they can fly but are not immune to pain. Another third of the group is told they are immune to injury but not to pain. The last section is immune to pain but not to injury. They are then asked to rate there attitude on undesirable groups and stigmatized groups such as heron addicts, obese, illegal immigrants, and so on. The data obtained supported the idea that given immunity from injury, participants would look at out-group members more positively then previously.
The experiment given by Aronson and Cope tested the attractiveness and punishments given by a person based on their relationship with another person. Forty male and forty female were randomly assigned to get a harsh experimenter and pleasant experimenter, harsh experimenter and harsh supervisor, pleasant experimenter and pleasant supervisor, or pleasant experimenter and harsh supervisor. The people who participated in the experiment thought they were participating in a study on creativity. The college students had to write a creative story on each picture that they were shown. The graduate student, who was the experimenter, always had a negative reaction to their stories but was either considerate about letting them know or was really harsh and rude about informing the students about their not creative stories. Then the experimenter would put his foot on the on the vent in the room and that would signal the supervisor to come interrupt the session to let the experimenter know if they had done a good job or bad job on the research that he had been conducting. This research is ba...