Cover of the textbook Focus 5 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.5 - Listening for the textbook Focus 5 - Student's Book with authors Vaughan Jones and Sue Kay from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to Jen talking about an experiment which explores how we form first impressions and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. She had to look at photos of people, read short info about them and remember the faces. Three days later, she had to look at them again for less than a second and categorise them as trustworthy or untrustworthy.
  2. No.
  3. When we have very little time we judge people by appearances but when we have more time, we judge them by other facts / information.