Stimulus Based Context
True or False: Stimulus-Based Context refers to when a face is physically displayed with additional sensory input that has informative significance
TRUE
True or False: Perceiver-based context refers to perceiving emotions based on your current mood
FALSE
Perceiver-based context refers to processes within the brain and body of a perceiver can shape emotion
True or False: Cultural contexts affect either the encoding or the understanding of facial actions
TRUE
True or False: Contextual influences are consciously processed and can be disrupted by cognitive load
FALSE
Contextual influences are early and automatically processed and are not disrupted by cognitive load
When perceivers see facial emotions, what does it feel like to them?
It feels like reading words
What is it called when cultures differ in the precise facial actions used to pose distinct emotion categories?
Cultural "accents"
Name two different types of descriptions that affect how perceivers evaluate facial actions
Social context, body postures, voices, visual settings and other faces affect how perceivers evaluate facial actions
What type of constraint do words provide?
Top-down constraint
Japanese perceivers don’t show amygdala activity to what type of faces?
Startled/fearful faces
When scowling or sneering faces are displayed on a body with fists raised, perceivers focus more on ______
When scowling or sneering faces are displayed on a body with fists raised, perceivers focus more on a face’s eye region
What is semantic dementia?
Having a loss of word meaning and object knowledge
People from an East Asian cultural context fixate primarily on what part of the face?
The eyes
When do situation descriptions exert a strong influence?
Situation descriptions exert a strong influence when they are more ambiguous than the exaggerated facial actions being perceived
A patient with semantic dementia was asked to sort emotions into 6 different piles, how many piles of emotions did they end up making?
3 piles (postive, negative, neutral)
During the perception of posed emotional faces, what part of the brain is activated?
Amygdala