Throughout completing the multiple ZAPS interactive activities, I learned a great deal about various important areas of psychological research. I reviewed topics such as student stress, emotional recognition using facial expression, personality traits, and face perception. Each ZAP activity included an exercise that closely related to the subject matter. The topics covered coincided with chapters in the textbook for psychology 200. The student stress section explained the difference between daily hassles and major life stressors. The main five personality traits were described in detail, as well as my results from my own test. Another activity I completed discussed primary emotions and their innate tendencies. Lastly, I practiced numerous studies
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In 1969, Paul Ekman argued that anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and happiness are considered primary emotions that produce innate facial expressions. He suggested that surprise, pride, and contempt should be included within the group of “basic emotions”. The innate theory was proposed by Caroll Izard’s research on young infant’s facial expressions. The experiment included in this ZAP activity asked me to choose which emotion I thought the picture provided was portraying most accurately. From my results, I can conclude that basic emotions such as happiness, surprise, and disgust are the most frequently detected. Primary emotions such as fear, sadness, and anger, are easily confused with each other due to the similar instinctive facial characteristics. This activity educated me on the history of emotional recognition throughout the studies provided from many past psychologists that classify these emotions …show more content…
The visual system has been shown to be more responsive and is especially sensitive to a special class of objects called faces. Recognition is defined as the ability to recognize different faces from one another in multiple situations. A key component of facial perception is a commonly known condition called prosopagnosia. This term ‘prosopagnosia’ described the condition that limits a person’s ability to recognize the face of others. This condition means that the process of non-facial recognition differs greatly from facial recognition. Throughout the interactive activity I scored much higher than expected and showed little to no difficulty recognizing faces that are inverted or completely unfamiliar. Studies provided by psychologists Hancock, Bruce, and Burton in early 2000 show that inversion disrupts the relationship between facial features, and this manipulation of features in particular makes a face considerably less recognizable. The experiment asked me to choose the closest related face similar to the one depicted above. The answer choices were often shown from different angles as the one provided to confuse the participant with inversion. The end results I was left with from the facial perception ZAP activity were all correct and answered within reasonable
In 1969, Paul Ekman argued that anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and happiness are considered primary emotions that produce innate facial expressions. He suggested that surprise, pride, and contempt should be included within the group of “basic emotions”. The innate theory was proposed by Caroll Izard’s research on young infant’s facial expressions. The experiment included in this ZAP activity asked me to choose which emotion I thought the picture provided was portraying most accurately. From my results, I can conclude that basic emotions such as happiness, surprise, and disgust are the most frequently detected. Primary emotions such as fear, sadness, and anger, are easily confused with each other due to the similar instinctive facial characteristics. This activity educated me on the history of emotional recognition throughout the studies provided from many past psychologists that classify these emotions …show more content…
The visual system has been shown to be more responsive and is especially sensitive to a special class of objects called faces. Recognition is defined as the ability to recognize different faces from one another in multiple situations. A key component of facial perception is a commonly known condition called prosopagnosia. This term ‘prosopagnosia’ described the condition that limits a person’s ability to recognize the face of others. This condition means that the process of non-facial recognition differs greatly from facial recognition. Throughout the interactive activity I scored much higher than expected and showed little to no difficulty recognizing faces that are inverted or completely unfamiliar. Studies provided by psychologists Hancock, Bruce, and Burton in early 2000 show that inversion disrupts the relationship between facial features, and this manipulation of features in particular makes a face considerably less recognizable. The experiment asked me to choose the closest related face similar to the one depicted above. The answer choices were often shown from different angles as the one provided to confuse the participant with inversion. The end results I was left with from the facial perception ZAP activity were all correct and answered within reasonable