... sheets and wrote their answers upon it. Number of participants Condition 1 Celebrities with eyes ( mean score out of 20) Number of participants Condition 2 Celebrities with blacked out eyes (mean score out of 20) 10 17/20 = 85% 10 13/20 = 65% In consideration of my results I reject my null hypothesis and accept my hypothesis that the participants will find it easier to recognise the celebrities' faces in the condition where the eyes are not blacked out. The results indicate that the eyes of a person's face are an important factor of face recognition. Introduction / Background: Being able to recognise other people is of great significance in our lives. You can imagine how difficult life would be if you didn't recognise your mother, brother, best friend or partner. Human beings seem to have an amazing ability to recognise faces. Standing (1973) showed participants 10,000 faces over five days. When they were shown pairs of ...

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