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involves the ability to think about yourself as an object . Involves the ability to recognized oneself (e.g., in a mirror)
Self reflexive thought
transient states of confusion in which self relevant knowledge is temporarily unavailable to consciousness
fugue states
The sense of being localized within the body. Are you aware of your body?
embodiment
the use of emotions expressed by another individual to guide ones own behaviour.
social refrencing
the sharing of a common focus of attention cross at least two invididuals.
joint attention
Used for detecting subtle prejudice. Measures of unconscious associations with a target group. Make fast responses to good or bad words and to different images. Response times are used to judge your implicit attitudes towards groups.
Implicit Associatio Task
Perspective-taking is the ability to adopt the perspective of another person (3rd-person viewpoint) and distinguish it from one’s own (1st-person viewpoint).
mentalizing
the assumption that others are agents motivated to behave in a way that is consistent with their current mental state
intentional stance
an enduring preference for having impact on other people or the world at large. epinephrine and norepinephrine which release testosterone in men which releases dopamine.
power motivation
Apathy (losing interest in the world, losing social relationships, little spontaneity of thought and action). Attention-span issues; failure to complete tasks. Lack of insight into their condition (confabulation).
Frontal Dysexecutive Syndrome
Caused by damage to the ventral and medial—but not lateral—portions of the PFC. Normal response selection and working memory. Chaotic social lives filled with inappropriate behaviour.
Frontal Disinhibition Syndrome?
Damage to lateral but not ventromedial PFC. Patients can perform movements and answer questions, but do both in a slow and distracted manner. Lethargic and withdrawn. Difficulty sustaining actions (e.g., put your finger on your nose for 30 seconds).
abulia
Participants attend to a continuously changing series of stimuli, most of which require a specific response (clicking button A). On a fraction of the trials, a different stimulus appears; participants must inhibit their usual response and make a different one.
oddball task
In this task, participants respond to most stimuli (“Go”) but inhibit responding to other, infrequently presented, stimuli (“No-Go”) (like a tone)
go/no-go task
occurs when a subject, trained to respond to a particular stimulus dimension, such as colour or shape, is required to transfer that rule to a novel set of exemplars of that same stimulus dimension
intra-dimentsional shift