Exam 13: Social Cognition

People with retrograde and anterograde amnesia are to maintain a sense of self because our judgments about self-characteristics are recall of specific past behaviors.

Which brain region is the most susceptible to coup-contra-coup injury?

In what way might the self-referent effect and the depth-of-processing effect be related?

Neuroeconomic functional MRI studies have suggested that rational decision making is associated with the , and emotion-driven decision making is associated with the .

Functional MRI and ERP studies suggest that the medial prefrontal cortex may be involved in tasks requiring

Tasks involving thinking about mental states often engage which region of the brain, in comparison to thinking about social background or life events?

Do patients with retrograde and anterograde amnesia have difficulty with their self-representation? Please explain why this is.

Studies of the perception of the self and others have suggested that

Neuroeconomics is the field of philosophy that discusses the rights and wrongs of the treatment or enhancement of the human brain.

A traumatic brain injury in which impact causes the brain to bounce against the back of the skull and then rebound is known as a injury.

Which of the following is true of the prefrontal cortex, schizophrenia, and depression?

Research suggests that the brain regions that are active during mentalizing tasks and during attentional cuing are functionally distinct from one another.

Information processed in relation to the self is better remembered than that which is processed in relation to others.

What do mentalizing tasks have in common with attentional cuing tasks?

False-belief tasks require participants to direct their attention away from invalid information to answer questions about another person's mental states.

People with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex tend to be of their social mistakes in the moment, become embarrassed by them if they view a video of themselves after the fact.

When reading a series of statements such as "At the party, he was the first to start dancing on the table," the is more active when making a personality inference as opposed to remembering the order of the statements.

To engage in joint attention, a child will pay attention to

Studies of people with autism have suggested that they do not significantly deactivate the when performing non-self-referential tasks. This is consistent with the observation that many people with autism have an unusual focus on rather than .

What were the circumstances under which Phineas Gage sustained his brain injury?