Exam 13: Social Cognition

Autistic children are likely to report that when performing the Sally-Anne task.

Experimental economics research has often assumed that humans behave as rational agents, always making choices that will maximize gains and minimize losses. What is problematic about this assumption from a psychological or neuroscientific perspective?

Studies using fMRI have found that neural activity in the medial prefrontal cortex when people make self-referential judgments compared to other judgments, suggesting that when we are "at rest" we are engaging in a number of self-referential processes.

Describe Raine's biosocial model of violence. Give an example of how this model applies to those with violent behavior.