Social Perception

Social Perception

Introduction

We live in a society which extremely focused towards making perceptions. People generally make perceptions about others in the first meeting and stick to that impression their whole lives. The social perception is extremely important for living in the society respectfully. People who do not have impressive social impression are not able to cope up with the challenges imposed by the society. This paper intends to answer the question of “Do faces and objects recruit distinct perceptual mechanisms?” For answering the question; various important aspects related to face perception will be analyzed in this paper. The paper will explore what face perception is; along with the adult face perception, functioning and object perception. The purpose of this paper is to make the readers aware about the significance of objects and faces contributing towards the recruitment of distinct perceptual mechanisms.

Face Perception

Face perception is basically the capability of any individual to understand and interpret the face of other human beings. The process of face perception usually takes place in the brain. The entire activity results in making a person capable of understanding and interpreting the nature of any human being through looking at his or her face. Human faces remain significant for the purpose of identification and thus face perceptions are thoroughly important (McKeeff, McGugin, Tong & Gautheir, 2010).

The magnitude and lexis of the faces of human beings provide opportunities to others for exploration, identification and recognition of human beings. Also, the origination of facial identities takes place through the process of face perception. The underlying emotional tendencies, the quality of person's health and the social information of people can be easily traced back through accurately reading faces by the process of face perception (Mary, 2003).

Faces remain extremely important for the social interaction for human beings. From birth to death; faces become the most important tool through which people are recognized and perceived. Reading faces is one of the most difficult jobs to conduct mainly because of the fact that face perceptions are essentially difficult. The recognition of the facial expressions requires the involvement of extended and comprehensive diverse points in the brain.

People who face intense difficulty in understanding faces are going through the disease of prosopagnosia. The disease occurs when the specific part of brain is damaged causing the specific impairments and difficulties in understanding faces. The underlying human perceptual mechanisms appreciate the recognition of faced. The human perceptual mechanisms facilitate and minimize the efforts of human beings in relation with recognizing the faces accurately (Driver, Haggard & Shallice, 2008).

The incredible variety of information can be easily processed by the human perceptual mechanisms making it easy to recognize the faces. Even the appearance of certain individuals is sufficient for the human perceptual mechanisms to identify who they are. The underlying researches related to the topic of social perception elaborate the process of face perception. The researches clearly suggest that despite the fact that different cues can facilitate the recognition process; the major focus of the social perception ...