Week 2.3.3: Interacting with Others Flashcards
This refers to the mental processes involved in understanding and interacting with others.
It includes interpreting social stimuli, such as facial expressions, and applying theory of mind (understanding others’ thoughts and feelings).
Social Cognition
The ability to attribute mental states (like beliefs, intents, desires, emotions) to oneself and others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, and intentions that are different from one’s own.
Theory of Mind
These are experimental setups borrowed from economics to study decision-making and social interactions.
They involve games that simulate real-life social situations to study behaviors like trust, reciprocity, and fairness.
Game Theoretical Exchange Paradigm
A hormone important for social bonding, often referred to as the “social cuddle hormone.” It increases trust in interpersonal situations.
Oxytocin
A hormone important for social bonding, often referred to as the “social cuddle hormone.” It increases trust in interpersonal situations.
Temporo-Parietal Junction
Part of the brain’s reward system, activated during the outcome phase of the trust game when cooperation or non-cooperation is revealed.
Caudate Nucleus
Linked to self-reflection and understanding others.
Precuneus
Associated with social cognition and decision-making.
Medial Prefrontal Cortex
The process of understanding others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires, and intentions.
It’s crucial for interpreting social interactions and predicting others’ behavior.
Mentalizing
Subtle actions or changes in behavior that convey social signals.
Social Gestures
The brain’s response to rewards, which involves the dopamine system.
This is particularly relevant in schizophrenia, where dopamine disturbances affect reward learning.
Reward Processing
Increasing trust when the partner has previously increased their trust
Trust Honoring
Increasing trust despite the partner previously decreasing their trust.
Trust Repairing
Decreasing trust even though the partner previously increased their trust.
Trust Disrupting
Both parties reduce trust in response to each other’s reduced trust.
Distrust Reciprocating
Symptoms of schizophrenia that include hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia.
Positive Symptoms
The initial stages of psychosis, typically within the first three years of the illness. Studying this stage helps understand social behavior before long-term factors have a significant impact.
Early Psychosis
A long-term condition where individuals have been experiencing psychosis for an extended period. This can affect their social behavior due to factors like stigma, social isolation, long-term medication use, and unemployment.
Chronic Psychosis
The initial level of trust shown by participants when nothing is known about the interaction partner.
Baseline Trust
The natural increase in trust levels as individuals grow older, typically seen in healthy controls but not in individuals with psychosis.
Age Effect in Trust
Situations where the interaction partner behaves unfairly, leading to a decline in trust.
Unfair Interactions
The process of recognizing and responding to unfair behavior by reducing trust.
Learning to Distrust
