Lecture 13 Flashcards
Social Cognition
What is your default network?
Internal thoughts, not attending to anything in the environment
What is social cognition?
How process, store and apply information about social situations
What is affiliative behaviour?
Behaviour involved in approaching people
What is antagonistic behaviour?
Behaviour involved in avoiding people
What is pro-social behaviour?
Benefits others but is bad for yourself e.g. making alarm calls
What is simulation theory?
Says that understand people by mimicking their experiences so can mentalise and empathise
What are mirror neurons?
Allow us to mirror other people
Where are mirror neurons found?
Throughout the brain
Which part of the brain is mainly involved in mirroring actions?
Pre-motor cortex
When someone is threatened with a slap to the hand what part of the observers brain is activated?
Sensory cortex in the hand area
What does the ventromedial PFC do?
Hot system, emotional decision making
What happens to emotion detection when the medial PFC is damaged?
Find it harder to detect emotions of others
What are aspects of social cognition?
What connections you have, what you get out of these connections and the quality of these connections
What is the social control hypothesis?
Social interactions reinforce healthy behaviour e.g. going to gym so live longer
What is the evolutionary hypothesis of why social interaction improves health?
Loneliness is your body’s punishment for not being in a group which is an evolutionary advantage. E.g. get hungry when haven’t eaten
