Psychology Goes To The Movies: The Face In The Crowd

Psychology Goes to the Movies -The Face in the Crowd
The face in the crowd is a movie featuring a woman, Anna Marchant after surviving an attack by women serial killer. Anna fell over the bridge and hit her head over the railings as she was trying to escape from the killer after witnessing him commit a murder. This accident left Anna with a condition known as prosopagnosia, a brain disorder commonly describes as face blindness. This injury prevents Anna from recognizing faces, including the face of her family and friend, she couldn’t even recognize her own face, not to talk of differentiating between a familiar of a friend from that of a stranger face.
The elements of cognitive psychology depicted in the face in the crowd are memory, perception and its effect on mental function and decision making, since the movie follows how Anna copes by focusing on the changes she has to make to accommodate the new condition. The movie has its flaw and its merit, as it depicts some correct information about the cognitive element pertaining to prosopagnosia but the movie lost some credibility when it start to use the fictitious term and condition to make the movie more interesting.
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The subject Anna was able to use such technique to identify people, such as using tie pattern to identify Bryce, but the movie became fictional and incorrect when it suggested that Anna can recognize the detective because of his beard. People with prosopagnosia sees a beard, but they are unable to process and file that particular face with a name as Anna was able to do with the detective. Failure to recognize faces by prosopagnosia patient as being likened to taking a picture without storing, so you have no access to it later so they don’t have any recollection of that