Activity 2.1 - Face recognition

Learning Aims:

Knowledge on face recognition
Reflection on reliability of witnesses

Materials:

PC with internet connection, website http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/instructions_1.shtml
Pen and paper.

Suggestions for use:

In this game there are twelve pictures shown to the user. In a second round another twelve pictures are shown. After these two rounds, users see another series of pictures. They have to declare for each picture in this series if they have seen the picture before, and if so in which round. It seems that the game has an archive of about fifty pictures to choose from, each round there are randomly chosen some pictures from this archive.

Make a contest of this.
Make sure that the students take their rest between each round of the game.
Let each student make a screen capture of the results.

Possible questions:

Is it possible to find differences depending on gender? For instance, do male students recognize other males better than females (or the other way around)?
How sure are you about your answers?
Make for each picture that is used in the game a data sheet: how often was this picture used, how often was it recognized?