کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
918597 919498 2009 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Exploring children’s face-space: A multidimensional scaling analysis of the mental representation of facial identity
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی رشد و آموزشی
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Exploring children’s face-space: A multidimensional scaling analysis of the mental representation of facial identity
چکیده انگلیسی

We explored differences in the mental representation of facial identity between 8-year-olds and adults. The 8-year-olds and adults made similarity judgments of a homogeneous set of faces (individual hair cues removed) using an “odd-man-out” paradigm. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) analyses were performed to represent perceived similarity of faces in a multidimensional space. Five dimensions accounted optimally for the judgments of both children and adults, with similar local clustering of faces. However, the fit of the MDS solutions was better for adults, in part because children’s responses were more variable. More children relied predominantly on a single dimension, namely eye color, whereas adults appeared to use multiple dimensions for each judgment. The pattern of findings suggests that children’s mental representation of faces has a structure similar to that of adults but that children’s judgments are influenced less consistently by that overall structure.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology - Volume 103, Issue 3, July 2009, Pages 355–375
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