Deck 16: Social Behavior

Question 1

Give an example of a study that might use an online TMS protocol to study moral judgments. Now modify it to be done with an offline protocol.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Describe the difference between online and offline TMS.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Give an example of a false-belief story. What brain regions have been implicated in understanding a false belief?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Describe three behavioral changes that came about as a result of Phineas Gage's accident.

Question 5

What is model-based fMRI? How does it differ from other approaches to the analysis of fMRI data?

Question 6

What type of analysis would combine the results from multiple studies into a single analysis?

Question 7

What factor(s) should be taken into account when comparing the overlap of fMRI activity associated with two tasks or conditions?

Question 8

Describe a task that should tap into the construct of theory of mind mentalizing.

Question 9

What are some of the behavioral tendencies of psychopaths? Which brain areas and connections differ in people with psychopathy relative to those without it?

Question 10

If I am playing doubles tennis with someone who isn't very good at tennis, what error signal below am I most likely to generate if they swing and miss the ball?

A)Reward prediction error
B)Action prediction error
C)Observational outcome prediction error

Question 11

TMS to which brain region would affect people's performance on a moral judgment task?

Question 12

Describe the difference between reward prediction errors, action prediction errors, and observed-outcome prediction errors.

Question 13

The phenomenon of temporal discounting is best illustrated in which example?

A)Someone who prefers one pizza now, rather than three pizzas a week from now
B)Someone who prefers three pizzas a week from now than one pizza now
C)Someone who equally happy with one pizza now or three hamburgers now
D)Someone whose choice of pizza vs. hamburger is influenced by whether or not a peer is watching him make the decision

Question 14

What is some evidence that the TPJ is specialized for theory of mind mentalizing? What evidence has been generated that challenges this claim?

Question 15

What are the two representational steps of Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning?

Question 16

What is mentalizing?

Question 17

The behavioral variant of frontal-temporal dementia is associated with brain damage to what two brain regions?

Question 18

What factor elicits differential neural responses when autism spectrum disorder (ASD) patients and neurotypical subjects consider a scenario in which one person gets harmed by another?

Question 19

Describe the difference between observational and experiential learning.

Question 20

Which of the following is not associated with damage to the vmPFC?

A)Poor decision making
B)Problems controlling emotion
C)Lack of empathy
D)Difficulty inhibiting actions