Exam 11: Social Relations

An intriguing question asks whether chimpanzees reflect any of the characteristics of _____; a variety of observations suggest that chimps are able to understand, to some extent, what another chimp might know.

Chimpanzees live in groups ranging from 20 to 120 individuals. Their society is referred to as _____ because individuals spend time alone as well as join and leave subgroups of the larger group.

A honeybee worker will sting an intruder to save the group, even if this results in the death of the bee. Because the cost of this prosocial behavior is so great, it is called _____.

According to Fiske's theory of social relations, _____ is the type of relationship in which a group treats material objects as belonging to all; group members take what they need and contribute as they can.

Adolphs (2003) describes a three-part brain system in which sensory information is processed in sensory cortex, its emotional value is determined in structures such as the amygdala, and the social implications are determined by the _____.

Giving someone the time of day is an example of helping behavior, but because the cost to you is virtually nothing, this act should be considered a form of _____.

Discuss the brain processes involved in social relations.

Discuss the social brain hypothesis and the evidence to support it.

Because one condition of this theory is that the individual is able to recognize and remember who had helped in the past, _____ should be limited to species with those abilities.

Brain structures involved in social interactions can be organized in terms of three processes. Which of the following is NOT one of those processes?

Researchers have observed that high-ranking female chimpanzees will sometimes _____ newborn infants of low-ranking females.

Fiske calls "tit-for-tat" relationships _____. "If you invite me to your house, then I should invite you to mine" would be one common manifestation of this type of relationship.

Research suggests that when we look at a face, we process broad categorizations related to _____ and to the emotion expressed before we complete the detailed construction of the entire face and determine who we are seeing.

One strategy for playing the prisoner's dilemma is called _____. It has only two rules: (1) On your first move, you should cooperate; and (2) on every move after that, do what the other person did on the last trial.