Landrey Brown
Thaddeus Rada
PSY-110
20 June 2016
A Study on the Effects of Low Levels of Fatigue on Face Recognition
In the study titled “The effects of Low Levels of Fatigue on Face Recognition Among Individuals and Team Members”, the authors investigated the subject’s ability to identify distinct faces in crowds, while either fatigued from sleep deprivation, or while feeling very alert. “Among individuals, fatigue led to a greater bias toward identifying targets as absent. Fatigued team members experienced bias toward absent responses but to a lesser extent than did fatigued individuals” (Frings 461). However, these results do not indicate that the more alert group received greater affirmative results. The group whom which were more fatigued …show more content…
There is a variety of complex events that will occur in your brain to permit an individual to recognize a face. It commences as a stimuli is recognized as being a face. If it codes to be a familiar face, a successful match will occur with the contextual information given to the brain. Fatigue may not even negatively impair an individual 's cognitive performance in some cases. “People find it harder to recognize unfamiliar faces under time pressure and high task demands” (Frings 461). Along with time pressure and high task demands, stress may also impair the cognitive performances. Ironically, with as much interest has been shown to this correlation, there has been very little research done to investigate the …show more content…
The article had many expert opinions cited within the report. It had differing groups, the control group which was the alert group, and the experimental group which was the sleep deprived, fatigued group. The title of the article, or the headline, was not sensationalised at all. It spoke the truth for what the article was to be researching and showing the audience the possible correlations between fatigue and face recognition. The results were not misinterpreted in my opinion. When Frings discussed the results, it was right with what the article was about. The subjects were not blind tested, which may cause some bias in the report. They may have been purposely attempting to delay the recognition of faces, or create more false alarms when knowing that they were sleep deprived. The report could’ve had more participants tested, there were only 182 participants. Along with this, the ratio of men to women were not even close. There were only 36 females, and 146 males. I would’ve evened out the amount of males and females to make the testing more fair, and I also would’ve made the fatigued and alert amounts of people more evened out as well. There was a mentioning of other tests having differing results, which would fall into a category of unreplicable results. When independent research is conducted with differing conditions, the results should all be consistent. Overall, I do believe that the strengths of the article did
Thaddeus Rada
PSY-110
20 June 2016
A Study on the Effects of Low Levels of Fatigue on Face Recognition
In the study titled “The effects of Low Levels of Fatigue on Face Recognition Among Individuals and Team Members”, the authors investigated the subject’s ability to identify distinct faces in crowds, while either fatigued from sleep deprivation, or while feeling very alert. “Among individuals, fatigue led to a greater bias toward identifying targets as absent. Fatigued team members experienced bias toward absent responses but to a lesser extent than did fatigued individuals” (Frings 461). However, these results do not indicate that the more alert group received greater affirmative results. The group whom which were more fatigued …show more content…
There is a variety of complex events that will occur in your brain to permit an individual to recognize a face. It commences as a stimuli is recognized as being a face. If it codes to be a familiar face, a successful match will occur with the contextual information given to the brain. Fatigue may not even negatively impair an individual 's cognitive performance in some cases. “People find it harder to recognize unfamiliar faces under time pressure and high task demands” (Frings 461). Along with time pressure and high task demands, stress may also impair the cognitive performances. Ironically, with as much interest has been shown to this correlation, there has been very little research done to investigate the …show more content…
The article had many expert opinions cited within the report. It had differing groups, the control group which was the alert group, and the experimental group which was the sleep deprived, fatigued group. The title of the article, or the headline, was not sensationalised at all. It spoke the truth for what the article was to be researching and showing the audience the possible correlations between fatigue and face recognition. The results were not misinterpreted in my opinion. When Frings discussed the results, it was right with what the article was about. The subjects were not blind tested, which may cause some bias in the report. They may have been purposely attempting to delay the recognition of faces, or create more false alarms when knowing that they were sleep deprived. The report could’ve had more participants tested, there were only 182 participants. Along with this, the ratio of men to women were not even close. There were only 36 females, and 146 males. I would’ve evened out the amount of males and females to make the testing more fair, and I also would’ve made the fatigued and alert amounts of people more evened out as well. There was a mentioning of other tests having differing results, which would fall into a category of unreplicable results. When independent research is conducted with differing conditions, the results should all be consistent. Overall, I do believe that the strengths of the article did