Exam 13: Social Cognition

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

Information processed in relation to the self is better remembered than that which is processed in relation to others.

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.

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 ________.

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

Simulation theory suggests that theory of mind is based on an ability to put ourselves in the shoes of another person, using our own minds to simulate what might be going on in the mind of someone else.

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

Neuroeconomics is the field of philosophy that discusses the rights and wrongs of the treatment or enhancement of the human brain.

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

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

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERP) studies suggest that the medial prefrontal cortex may be involved in tasks requiring

The self-referent effect refers to the phenomenon that

People with orbitofrontal damage show difficulty with which types of tasks? Describe their symptoms. How are they different from children with autism?

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

People with retrograde and anterograde amnesia are ________ to maintain a sense of self because our judgments about self-characteristics are ________ recall of specific past behaviors.

If neuroimaging studies showed that entirely different brain regions were activated when a person experienced pain from those that are activated when a person viewed or imagined someone else experiencing pain, this would

In the experimental economics task known as the "Ultimatum Game," one participant must choose how to split a sum of money with another player. The second player can choose to accept the offer-or to reject it, meaning neither player receives anything. Consideration of unfair offers is associated with activity in the ________, an area that has been associated with disgust.

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

What is the self-referent effect? Describe a neuropsychological study-real or hypothetical-that would support or disprove the self-referent effect.

Functional MRI studies of ethical dilemmas suggest that ________ decisions recruit working memory processes, whereas ________ decisions recruit emotional and social cognitive processes.