Exam 14: Social Cognition

What evidence supports the notion that autistic people are "mindblind"? What are some alternative hypotheses?

Baron-Cohen has proposed that people with ________ have impaired theory-of-mind abilities,coining the term mindblindness.

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

The term ________ refers to the observation that people with frontal lobe injuries may demonstrate an abnormal dependence on environmental cues in guiding their behavior and may mimic the actions of those around them.

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

In a teasing experiment,people with orbitofrontal injuries and control participants were asked to make up nicknames for an experimenter whom they did not know well.What were the results?

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

The Sally-Anne Task is used to test whether someone

What might a person with prefrontal damage do upon entering a room containing a hammer,nail,and picture,according to François Lhermitte?

The infamous procedure known as the frontal lobotomy was associated most closely with which of the following periods?

When deciding whether an adjective describes ________,we rely on ________.

The trolley problem described in your text has many variations.One of them goes as follows: You are a surgeon and have five patients who each need a different organ transplant.No acceptable donor for any of them can be found,until one day a healthy traveler comes into your office and is the perfect donor for all five patients.Are there any circumstances under which it would be morally acceptable to kill this person to save the lives of five others? Based on the study of Greene and colleagues,which areas of your brain did you likely use when thinking about this ethical dilemma?

Single-cell recording studies in monkeys and human neuroimaging studies support the idea that the ________ is important for interpreting eye gaze in relation to mental states.

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

Which brain area seems to be the most important for selectively attending to positive self-relevant information,as opposed to negative self-relevant information?

When reading 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.

Damasio's (1994)somatic marker hypothesis argues that memories of responses we have made in the past

A neurologically intact individual and a person who has an injury to the orbitofrontal cortex are playing a high-stakes poker game.Each player has bet a large sum of money on the current hand.Based on what you know about the orbitofrontal cortex and emotional aspects of memory,which of the following best describes the skin conductance response (SCR)of each player as they prepare to show their hands?

Describe the role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the perception of the self and of others.How might the two be related?

Research suggests that self-description judgments rely on recall of specific autobiographical episodes.