Exam 14: Social Cognition

In an experiment by William Kelley and colleagues,participants judged personality adjectives in relation to either themselves or the U.S.president.The results suggested that memory for words processed in relation to the self was ________ than that for words processed in relation to the U.S.president,and that the former condition resulted in greater neural activity in the ________ cortex.

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

Most children who are asked to sort a set of facial pictures will likely sort on the basis of ________,whereas autistic children will likely sort on the basis of ________.

According to Damasio's (1994)somatic marker hypothesis,linking emotional and autonomic responses to memories of previous behaviors is useful because such connections

The anterior cingulate cortex is important for distinguishing positive self-relevant information from negative self-relevant information.