Diamond and Carey Suggested That the Inversion Effect for Faces

question 34

Multiple Choice

Diamond and Carey suggested that the inversion effect for faces resulted from:

• A) The operation of a special mechanism for face recognition
• B) The bilateral symmetry of faces
• C) Expertise in face recognition
• D) Misalignment of geons in memory

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Definitions:

Two-Tailed

Two-Tailed tests in statistics are used to determine if there is either a positive or negative effect, and the significance is checked in both directions of the distribution.

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a test statistic that define regions where the null hypothesis can be rejected, indicating statistical significance.

Two-Tailed

A statistical test where the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is either greater or less than a certain range of values.

Negative Number

A real number that is less than zero, indicating a direction opposite to positive numbers.