Ch. 13: Vocab Flashcards
Informational conformity:
A) Relying on other in uncertain situations
B) Adapting behavior to be liked by others
A) Relying on other in uncertain situations
Normative conformity:
A) Relying on other in uncertain situations
B) Adapting behavior to be liked by others
B) Adapting behavior to be liked by others
Rostral Cingulate Zone (RCs):
A) Activated when ratings differ from group feedback (DURING CONFLICT)
B) Activated when ratings agree with group feedback (REWARD)
A) Activated when ratings differ from group feedback (DURING CONFLICT)
Nucleus Accumbens (NAc):
A) Activated when ratings differ from group feedback (DURING CONFLICT)
B) Activated when ratings agree with group feedback (REWARD)
B) Activated when ratings agree with group feedback (REWARD)
Are the following related to Social Norms or Socially inappropriate behavior?
- Traumatic brain injury (esp. frontal lobe damage)
- Some kinds of dementia (esp. frontotemporal dementia)
-Individuals with autism
Socially inappropriate
Simulation Theory (Imitation):
A) we understand the mental states of others through simulation, imitation, mimicry, or acting “as if” we are them.
B) we have a cognitive representation of other people’s mental states, including their feelings and their knowledge.
A) we understand the mental states of others through simulation, imitation, mimicry, or acting “as if” we are them.
Theory of Mind (Mentalizing) :
A) we understand the mental states of others through simulation, imitation, mimicry, or acting “as if” we are them.
B) we have a cognitive representation of other people’s mental states, including their feelings and their knowledge.
B) we have a cognitive representation of other people’s mental states, including their feelings and their knowledge.
Theory of mind (“mentalizing”) is the capacity to cognitively represent another person’s mental states, and even to understand that they may be different than one’s own.
- Assessed with a variety of tasks, including the false belief task, which activates both the temporoparietal junction and the medial prefrontal cortex.
Heider-Simmel Illusion:
A) Participants view pictures of eyes cropped out of a face, and must decide what emotion the person is feeling.
B) Demonstrated that we attribute mental states to objects when they move in certain ways.
B) Demonstrated that we attribute mental states to objects when they move in certain ways.
This illusion demonstrates that people often attribute mental states, like intentions and emotions, to objects that move in specific ways, even though they are inanimate. This suggests an inherent tendency to interpret actions in terms of mental states.
Mind-in-the-Eyes Task:
A) Participants view pictures of eyes cropped out of a face, and must decide what emotion the person is feeling.
B) Demonstrated that we attribute mental states to objects when they move in certain ways.
A) Participants view pictures of eyes cropped out of a face, and must decide what emotion the person is feeling.
This task requires participants to identify the emotion someone is feeling based solely on a picture of their eyes. This assesses the ability to infer emotional states from subtle social cues.
Emotional Contagion:
A) behavior targeted to help another person in need
B) allows us to understand another person’s point of view
C) causes us to feel as others feel
C) causes us to feel as others feel
Cognitive Perceptive-taking:
A) behavior targeted to help another person in need
B) allows us to understand another person’s point of view
C) causes us to feel as others feel
B) allows us to understand another person’s point of view
Pro-social action:
A) behavior targeted to help another person in need
B) allows us to understand another person’s point of view
C) causes us to feel as others feel
A) behavior targeted to help another person in need
Cognitive Perspective taking:
Participants with better matches– higher empathic accuracy:
A) show greater activity in brain areas associated with mirroring and mentalizing
B) show greater activity in brain areas associated with imitation and mimicry
A) show greater activity in brain areas associated with mirroring and mentalizing
An error in social cognition in which people tend to see their own actions as more socially constrained yet assume the actions of others are more attributable to their inherent personalities.
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to assume that certain characteristics are universally true of group members. For example, we may hold a stereotype that women are nurturing or that Asians are good at math.
Stereotyping
