Lecture 15: Social Cognition Flashcards
What is Social Cognition?
The capacity to reflect on one’s own thoughts and behaviors as well as the thoughts and behaviors of others… The key to social interactions involves racking changeable dispositions through:
- Learning through observation
- Imitation of actions
- Mirroring of physical manifestation of emotions (e.g facial expressions)
- Inferring the intentions, desires, and beliefs of others (aka Theory of Mind)
What is the Mirror Neuron System (MNS)?
Action observation network, action identification network and action representation network
What is the Default Mode Network (DMN)?
The task-negative network because it is deactivated during performance of tasks
What is Theory of Mind?
Thinking about the thoughts of others and what they might or might not know
What is Autobiographical Information?
Memories of collection of events and facts about one’s self
What is Self-Reference?
Referring to traits and descriptions of oneself emotion of one’s self: Reflecting about one’s own emotional state
What is Emotions of Others?
Understanding the emotions of other people and empathizing with their feelings
What is Moral Reasoning?
Determining just and unjust result of an action
What is Social Evaluations?
Good bad attitude judgments about social concepts
What are Social Categories?
Reflecting on important social characteristics and status of a group
Remembering the past and thinking about the future:
——-Remembering the past: Recalling events that happened in the past
——–Imaging the future: Enviosing events that might happen in the future
What is Episodic Memory?
Detailed memory related to specific events in time
What is Story Comprehension?
Understanding and remembering a narrative
What is Imitative Learning?
Monkey see, monkey do (aka see one, do one, teach one)
What is Gestural Perception?
Face recognition, facial action recognition, feature recognition, speech/language
What is Social Perception?
Theory of Mind (TOM), empathy, sympathy, compassion
Communication with conspecifics
What is First-Theory of Mind?
The ability to predict the thoughts of another person
What is the Second-Theory of Mind?
Understanding what a third person would think about the second person’s thoughts
What is Perceptual Theory of Mind?
Perceiving social cues that predict the intentions of others
What is Motivational Theory of Mind?
Perceiving the desires and intentions of others
What is the Sally-Anne Task?
A theory of mind test:
- Sally puts her ball in the basket and leaves the room
- Anne takes Sally’s ball out of the basket and puts it in the box
- Sally comes back into the room
- Where will Sally look for the ball
- Children under age 5 cannot solve this task
What other Brain Regions Support the Theory of Mind?
- Media Prefrontal Cortex
- Precuneus
- Posterior Cingulate Cortex
- Temporoparietal
