Exam 14: Social Cognition

Which of the following resulted in the significant personality changes observed in Phineas Gage?

The term theory of mind refers to

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?

The trolley problem and footbridge problem are ethical thought experiments involving life-or-death situations.Which of the following is true?

Raine (2002)has argued that ________ people are likely to show evidence of reduced neural activity in the orbitofrontal cortex.

In a social faux pas experiment,participants are presented with a scenario in which one character accidentally says something impolite to another character.When people with orbitofrontal damage perform this task,

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

What did Ami Klin find when autistic people watched the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

According to the somatic marker hypothesis,people with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex may fail to inhibit socially inappropriate behavior because

Information processed in relation to the self is better remembered.

Neuroeconomic studies have shown that humans

Neuroimaging studies suggest that the medial prefrontal cortex activates more relative to a baseline when people make self-referential judgments compared to other kinds of judgments.

One concern with interpreting fMRI studies employing a "resting state" for comparison with cognitive activities of interest is that

The self-referent effect refers to the phenomenon that

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.

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

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 ________.

Somatic markers are

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

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