Tanaka and Farah (1993) Used Line Drawings of Faces and Houses

Multiple Choice

Tanaka and Farah (1993) used line drawings of faces and houses in a recognition task. Participants were instructed to associate houses with names of those who lived there, and to associate faces with names. During the recall portion of the task, items were presented either in isolation or in context. Which of the following best describes the findings of this study?

A) Participants were better at identifying the house when presented as a whole object.
B) Participants were better at identifying a face when presented in conjunction with other parts of the person's face.
C) Participants' perception of the house did not depend on whether the test items were presented in isolation or as an entire object.
D) Participants performed the same for house perception regardless of whether presentation was in isolation or in context; however, face perception was better when features were presented in context.