Exam 12: Making Social Decisions

When the performance of a patient with damage to the limbic system was compared with performance of individuals without brain damage on a social-exchange problem and a social-protection problem, the result was that the patient performed worse on

Evolutionary psychologists assume that economic transactions reflect _____ processes that have been with humans since our early history and that our history reflects greater certainty for immediate gains than for delayed rewards.

_____ is cooperation for mutual benefit; examples include economic trades, reciprocal gift giving, and helping with the expectation that someday the favor will be returned.

Similar body movements, including gaze aversion, smiling, head movement, self-touching, and grooming are seen in nonhuman primates in appeasement displays, in which one individual seeks to pacify the other and keep the social bond intact; thus, the social emotion of _____ may have had its origins in appeasement.

In framing studies, if participants choose to go against the traditional response and gamble with a sure thing or not take a risk with a perceived loss, the amygdala is silent and instead the _____ is active; this area is known to be involved in conflict detection as well as when an error has been detected.

Pinker (2008) suggested that the nature of moral judgments is different from other types of thinking. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Moral judgments are felt to be _____. Someone who thinks that rape or killing is wrong does not think that this only applies to his or her hometown but to the entire world; in this sense, they are experienced differently from cultural judgments.

In a variety of studies, patients with ____ lobe lesions perform poorly on social exchange Wason tasks as compared to individuals without brain damage.

Humans and other animals display a non-rational set of rules when entering economic transitions, suggesting that factors other than traditional logic come into play. In fact, both humans and pigeons prefer _____ over _____

There is research to suggest that creating a feeling of ____ in a person will increase his or her sense of moral outrage or immorality.

Initially, it was assumed that war was somehow unique to humans and resulted from the development of weapons or the denseness of population; however, the observation that _____ changed that view.

In an experiment, pigeons were given the opportunity to press one button that would immediately give 2 seconds of access to a grain hopper or another button that would provide 4 seconds of access after a 4-second delay. The result was that almost all of the pigeons

Discuss the evolution of interpersonal and intragroup violence.

Simon suggested that one could learn about human decision making by noting how the environment in which these decisions must be made can allow for simplifications in adaptive decision making. _____ was the term he chose to reflect this process lying between the rational and the psychological.