Exam 13: Social Cognition

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

What were the circumstances under which Phineas Gage sustained his brain injury?

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 ________.

People with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex tend to be ________ of their social mistakes in the moment, ________ become embarrassed by them if they view a video of themselves after the fact.

Which of the following is true of the prefrontal cortex, schizophrenia, and depression?

Do patients with retrograde and anterograde amnesia have difficulty with their self-representation? Please explain why this is.

A traumatic brain injury in which impact causes the brain to bounce against the back of the skull and then rebound is known as a ________ injury.

The Sally-Anne task is used to test whether someone

Which of the following hypothetical programs would be MOST helpful toward alleviating the social deficits typically observed in antisocial personality disorder (APD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or schizophrenia?

A patient recently had a tumor near his temporoparietal junction (TPJ) removed. Since then, he has been experiencing occasional out-of-body experiences. Which of the following surgical ramifications might explain this?

Raine (2002) has argued that ________ factors play a role in determining whether someone exhibits violent behavior.

Baron Cohen has proposed that people with ________ have impaired theory-of-mind abilities, coining the term mindblindness.

Studies of the perception of the self and others have suggested that

Which of the following areas is LEAST involved in social cognition?

What evidence supports the notion that autistic people are "mindblind?" What are some alternative hypotheses?

Research suggests that the brain regions that are active during mentalizing tasks and during attentional cuing are functionally distinct from one another.

Anomalies in bodily experience, such as xenomelia and alien limb syndrome, are generally thought to be due to __________, but are actually due to________.

Studies of the neural bases of autism have found that people with autism

In a teasing experiment, people with orbitofrontal injuries and control participants were asked to make up nicknames for an experimenter whom they did not know well. What were the results?

Describe the role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the perception of the self and of others. How might the two be related?