Cignitive Control And Social Cognition

Question 1

What did schneider and Schmidt run 1977 do?

Answer 1

Controlled processes have limited capacity, require attention
Automatic persona have no capacity limitations, no attention and can modify once learnt

Question 2

What is automaticity

Answer 2

Salient stimuli can attract attention, memories can be automatically activated and some behaviours are automatic
Befenical to free up out attention all capacities
But need to control ourselves and overcome automatic impulses e.g. Beer… for appropriate behaviour

Question 3

What did shallice and burgess 1992

Answer 3

Automatic behaviour isn’t enough for automatic performance.
Incorrect response is liable by production of routine patterns or no routine procedure to produce automatic reaspinse
More basic tasks e.g. Strip takss, action inhibition, wm tasks… more complex tasks such as planning/reasoning tasks

Question 4

What does the prefrontal cortex

Answer 4

Large body of research links to cognitive mechanisms of PFC

THIS is enlarged in humans, last area to mature

Question 5

What happens with PFC damage?

Answer 5

Have cognitive control development behaviour problems / dysexecutive syndrome
Confabulation (weird belief/memory errors

Question 6

What did damasio et al 1985 do?

Answer 6

Patient with orbiofrkntsl cortex damage thought he was a pirate after brain damage

Question 7

What did baddley and hitch 1973 do

Answer 7

Central executive controls slave systems

Question 8

What did Norman and shallice 1989 do

Answer 8

Perceptual inputs trigger schemes learned sequences of behaviours
Competing schemas mutually inhibit each other
If situation requires flexible behaviour, SAD is invoked and biases schemas

Question 9

What is the SAS model?

Answer 9

Linked with selective attention. Emphasises role of cognitive processes in top-down over automatics processes
Links SAS with frontal lobe and dysexecutive syndrome
Baddeley 1993 suggested SAS corresponds to wo central executive

Question 10

What does activity in lateral PFC show

Answer 10

Involved with maintaining WM content

Question 11

What did duncan 2010 do

Answer 11

Several PFC REGOINS are correlated with fluid intelligence (abstract thinking, problem solving

Question 12

Is wm and sas domain general or specific

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Domain general, not specified to type of info

Control is poorly specified

Question 13

What did cohen et al 2000 do

Answer 13

Two main components are needed for top down control

Detection of need to control (LPFC) and control implementation (ACC)

Question 14

Is PFC CONTROL top down or bottom up

Answer 14

Top-down. Some Argue it influences posterior regoins by amplifying cetrainnresponses

Question 15

What is gazzaley et al 2005

Answer 15

Attention seems to be both amplify selected and inhibit ignored information activation in right PPA AND FFA

Question 16

What is iMovies in long term memory inhibition

Answer 16

Lateral PFC

suppressing episodic memories memories increased activity in DLPFC and reduced activity in the hippocampus

Question 17

What is a central goal?

Answer 17

Understand how we make interferences about other people’s states of mind

Question 18

What’s self-referential cognition

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Understanding others is ljnked with understanding oneself self-referential processing
But what is the self, how do we know our own minds?

Question 19

What did rogers et al 1977 do

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Defined self concept as the abstracted essence of s persons perception of him or himself
Memory for self referential my processes info, adjectives describing characteristics e.g. Suspicious, happy… better memory when self-references
Enhances level of processing

Question 20

What does the left lateral PFC seems responsible for what

Answer 20

Enhanced memory for deeply processed items

Question 21

What did macrame et a 2004

Answer 21

Activity in this region predicts memory for self rekavant items in the DM paradigm

Question 22

What did Philippi et al 2012 do

Answer 22

Lesions in AMPFC abolished self reference effect, shoes casual relationship
Mediated in anterior part of the medial prefrontal cortex

Question 23

What does Simon baron cohen 1985 suggest

Answer 23

Social problems in autism stem from underlying problem in inferring mental stats of others

Question 24

What is castelli et al 2992 do

Answer 24

Anterior MPFC ONE OF THREE regiinS that shoe reduced activity in autism
Other other parts assoiated too