Facing the facts: Naive participants have only moderate insight into their face recognition and face perception abilities

Autor: Bobak, Anna Katarzyna, Mileva, Viktoria R, Hancock, Peter J B
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Adult
Male
super-recognisers
Adolescent
Physiology
media_common.quotation_subject
Self-concept
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Facial recognition system
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Behavioural testing
Face perception
Physiology (medical)
Perception
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Correlation of Data
individual differences
General Psychology
media_common
Principal Component Analysis
Highly skilled
05 social sciences
General Medicine
self-report
Self Concept
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Pattern Recognition
Visual
Face
Face (geometry)
Scale (social sciences)
face perception
Female
Self Report
Psychology
Facial Recognition
Photic Stimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
face recognition
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72:872-881
ISSN: 1747-0226
1747-0218
DOI: 10.1177/1747021818776145
Popis: A reliable self-report measure to assess the broad spectrum of face recognition ability (FRA) from developmental prosopagnosia (DP) to super-recognition would make a valuable contribution to initial screening of large populations. We examined the performance of 96 naive participants and seven super-recognisers (SRs) using a range of face and object processing tasks and a newly developed 20-item questionnaire, the Stirling Face Recognition Scale (SFRS). Overall, our findings suggest that young adults have only moderate insight into their FRA, but those who have been previously informed of their (exceptional) performance, the SRs, estimate their FRA accurately. Principal component analysis of SFRS yielded two components. One loads on questions about low ability and correlates with perceptual tasks, and one loads on questions about high FRA and correlates with memory for faces. We recommend that self-report measures of FRA should be used in addition to behavioural testing, to allow for cross-study comparisons, until new, more reliable instruments of self-report are developed. However, self-report measures should not be solely relied upon to identify highly skilled individuals. Implications of these results for theory and applied practice are discussed.
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