Social Cognition Flashcards
What chemical is released when you are with someone you have a social bond with?
Oxytocin
What types of social bonds are there?
- Mother-infant
- Pair-bonding
- Friendships/communal bonds
What are the two universal dimensions of social cognition?
Warmth and competence
Social networks have at least what three properties?
- Power law distribution in degree
- Short distance
- High clustering
The amygdala can be broken down into ___ parts, and each part is ______
- 3
- Especially active with different parts of the cortex
The ventrolateral amygdala is associated with ______ through the _____`
- The Perception Network
- Lateral orbitofrontall cortex
What does the Perception Network do?
Identifies other people, or anything that has social meaning
The medial amygdala is associated with _____ through the _____
- Social Affiliation Network
- Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
What is the Social Affiliation Network?
Involved with trust and motivates prosocial behaviour
The dorsal amygdala is associated with _____ through the ______
- Social Aversion Network
- Caudal anterior singulate gyrus
What does the Social Aversion Network do?
Rejects others and avoids untrustworthy people
Observationally learned cues are associated with _____
- Increased physiological arousal
- Increased activity in the amygdala, insula, and anterior cingulate cortex
____ neurons are associated with observational encoding, while ____ neurons are associated with first-hand encoding
- rostral ACC
- amygdala/mPFC
Forming first impressions implicates the ____ and the ____
- amygdala posterior cingulate cortex in representing valenced social information
- dmFPC in representing general information about a person
Experienced reciprocity during repeated interactions predicts _____
Whether we should continue to collaborate with someone
Social network complexity maps _____
Amygdala functional connectivity
Judging social distance within a social network appears to recruit the same regions as ______
Judging spacial and temporal distance
Observational threat and safety learning draw on mechanisms partially shared with _____
Direct threat conditioning and extinction learning
Direct threat conditioning critically involves the _____
Amygdala (particularly basolateral, basomedial, and central nucleus)
What is the difference between US-driven models and CS-driven models of learning?
In US-driven models, learning depends on the strength of the unconditioned stimulus, while in the CS-driven model learning depends on recent experience with the stimulus
Vicarious threat learning partially relies on the same learning mechanisms as ______
Classical conditioning
Empathy can be divided into which three processes?
- Affect sharing (resonating with another person’s emotions)
- Mentalizing (understanding the contents of another person’s mind)
- Prosocial motivation (wanting to reduce others’ suffering)
Safety learning through direct extinction involves the _____
Ventromedial PFC and its interaction with the amygdala
What is instrumental learning?
Actively intervening in the environment to learn how actions can bring about rewarding or punishing consequences
