Class 16 - Emotion and social learning

Question 1

What is affect?

Answer 1

Conscious subjective feeling about a stimulus

Question 2

How many basic emotions are there?

Answer 2

Six

Question 3

What did decorticated dogs that showed rage behavior show about emotional responses?

Answer 3

Emotional responses depend on the diencephalon

Question 4

Where are the lesion in Kluver Bucy syndrome?

Answer 4

Bilateral removal of amygdala and inferior temporal cortex

Question 5

What side is better for producing facial expressions?

Answer 5

Left side

Question 6

What parts of your brain are especially important for emotion?

Answer 6

Amygdala and prefrontal cortex

Question 7

What behavioral changes occurred after frontal lesions in monkeys?

Answer 7

Messed up social interaction

Question 8

What is the somatic marker hypothesis?

Answer 8

The brain and body change in response to a important stimulus. Less body reactions mean less intense emotions

Question 9

What is the cognitive emotional interactions theory

Answer 9

The notion that amygdala circuits interact with cortical circuits to influence affective behavior

Question 10

What hemisphere is more engaged in automatic components of emotion (generates feelings)?

Answer 10

Right hemisphere

Question 11

What hemisphere is more engaged in cognitive control of information (interpreting feelings)?

Answer 11

Left hemisphere

Question 12

What side of the brain is damaged in aprosodia?

Answer 12

Right hemisphere

Question 13

What is theory of mind?

Answer 13

Ability to understand the mental states of others and the behaviors that result from these mental states

Question 14

What neural regions are active during social judgement?

Answer 14

Frontal lobe, amygdala, STS cortex

Question 15

What networks help generate yourself?

Answer 15

right frontal parietal cortex and cortical midline network

Question 16

What is the medial frontal cortex implicated in?

Answer 16

Social cognition and theory of mind

Question 17

When people do not show any regret, where are their lesions?

Answer 17

Orbitofrontal lesion

Question 18

Do you need to memorize the red tables?

Answer 18

No.

Question 19

At what age do kids begin to describe mental states of others?

Answer 19

3-4 years old

Question 20

What shows social cognition in infants?

Answer 20

Imitating others

Question 21

What is voxel based morphometry?

Answer 21

Comparing one brain with another via imaging

Question 22

What does the Jack and Jill task test for?

Answer 22

False beliefs

Question 23

What is affective theory of mind?

Answer 23

Knowing when you look like your feel something but you feel another

Question 24

What did the Yeate’s study show about theory of mind?

Answer 24

More severe TBI caused worse theory of mind

Question 25

Were kids with TBI able to get responses to their efforts of initiating something

Answer 25

No they were not. Kids can be cruel :(

Question 26

What did Yeates figure out with the extended class play?

Answer 26

Kids with severe TBI were more likely to be socially rejected and less likely for mutual friendships. Kids with TBI were worse in leadership, prosocial and acceptance ratings

Question 27

What did fMRI indicate about the grey matter changes in severe TBI kids?

Answer 27

There is less grey matter in the frontal areas