Exam 15: Social Cognition

Patients with __________ tend to mix up their thoughts with the thoughts of others, giving rise to the belief that they can read other's thoughts, or that someone is broadcasting their own thoughts to the rest of the world.

The right lateral orbitofrontal cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) are both active when a person is feeling ______, but not when they are feeling sadness or shame.

On a study done by Oosterohof and Todorov in 2008 on facial expressions, which two factors appear to encompass all personality judgements?

If an individual with lesions on the temporal pole is given positive information about an otherwise untrustworthy looking person, the individual with lesions will:

Individuals with Autism spectrum disorder show activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex when they are reflecting on others and when they are:

An individual with large lips, flared nostrils, and furrowed brows would appear to be:

A face with smaller ___________ will appear more sad to individuals asked to rank faces on sadness, intensity, and attractiveness.

Which requires reflective awareness and involves generating an appropriate emotional response?

Individuals with psychopathy are born with it, but cannot acquire the disorder through head injury.

This brain region, active in moral dilemmas, was active when participants in the Greene and Paxton (2006) study on lying decided to lie in order to win money:

What types of facial features translate into trustworthiness?

What types of species can benefit from self-awareness?

What would a person with autism spectrum disorder LIKELY do if they observed a person crying?

Which disorder is associated with having difficulty with both cognitive and emotional empathy?

In the 2006 study by Singer et al. on empathy, participants played a cooperative game with an actor, who either played cooperatively or uncooperatively. The actor then received a painful shock. What was the outcome of this experiment?

Picking up on social cues that may indicate intentions is called:

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has a(n) ___________ effect on neurons.

What does the case study of J.S. show about the possible cause for sociopathic behavior?

Humans are able to judge the social emotional cues shown in others faces in an incredibly short span of time.

Donating money and keeping money for myself will activate the same regions in the brain that are associated with feelings of pleasure.