Language

Question 1

Constructing utterances to suit the audience’s knowledge

Answer 1

Audience design

Question 2

Information that is shared by people who engage in conversation

Answer 2

Common ground

Question 3

Group to which a person belongs

Answer 3

Ingroup

Question 4

Words or expressions

Answer 4

Lexicon

Question 5

A tendency for people to characterize positive things about their ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their outgroups using more abstract expressions

Answer 5

Linguistic intergroup bias

Question 6

Group to which a person does not belong

Answer 6

Outgroup

Question 7

A stimulus presented to a person reminds them about other ideas associated with the stimulus

Answer 7

Priming

Question 8

The hypothesis that the language that people use determines their thoughts

Answer 8

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Question 9

A mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description

Answer 9

Situation model

Question 10

The hypothesis that the human brain has evolved, so that humans can maintain larger ingroups

Answer 10

Social brain hypothesis

Question 11

Networks of social relationships among individuals through which information can travel

Answer 11

Social networks

Question 12

Rules by which words are strung together to form sentences

Answer 12

Syntax

Question 13

A social perceiver unwittingly taking on the internal state of another person, usually because of mimicking the person’s expressive behaviour and thereby feeling the expressed emotion

Answer 13

Automatic empathy

Question 14

An experimental procedure that asses whether a perceiver recognizes that another person has a false belief - a belief that contradicts reality.

Answer 14

False-belief test

Question 15

People’s natural explanations for why somebody did something, felt something etc (differing substantially for unintentional and intentional behaviour)

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Folk explanations of behaviour

Question 16

An agents mental state of committing to perform an action that the agent believes will bring about a desired outcome

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Intention

Question 17

The quality of an agent’s performing a behaviour intentionally- that is, with skill and awareness and executing an intention (which is based on a desire and relevant beliefs)

Answer 17

Intentionality

Question 18

Two people attending to the same object and being aware that they both are attending to it

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Joint attention

Question 19

Copying other’s behaviour, usually without awareness

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Mimicry

Question 20

Neurons identified in monkey brains that fire both when the monkey performs a certain action and when it perceives another agent performing that action

Answer 20

Mirror neurons

Question 21

A social perceiver’s assumptions that the other person wants, knows, or feels the same as the perceiver does

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Projection

Question 22

The process of representing the other person’s mental state

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Simulation

Question 23

Two people displaying the same behaviours or having the same internal states (typically because of mutual mimicry)

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Synchrony

Question 24

The human capacity to understand minds, a capacity that is made up of a collection of concepts (agent, intentionality etc) and processes (goal detection, imitation, empathy etc)

Answer 24

Theory of mind

Question 25

Can refer to visual perspective taking (perceiving something from another person’s spatial vantage point) or more generally to effortful mental state inference (trying to infer the other person’s thoughts, desires, emotions)

Answer 25

Visual perspective taking