Neuro Racism

Question 1

defining Racism

Answer 1

A system of advantage based
on race that is created and
maintained by an interplay
between psychological factors
and sociopolitical factors

Question 2

How do we develop social categories?

Answer 2

• Familiarity Hypothesis
• Minimal group Hypothesis

Question 3

Define Face Encoding

Answer 3

Location:
Fusiform gyrus – located in
the ventral occipitotemporal
cortex – Fusiform Face Area (FFA)
* Sensitive to faces
(compared to other objects)

Question 4

in group vs. out-group Face encoding

Answer 4

• General finding: greater
  activation to in-group than
  out-group faces in FFA
• Likely supports/reflects
  better memory for in- group faces

Question 5

Explain Personal Knowledge

Answer 5

• Posterior Cingulate
  Cortex (PCC)
• Activated when we
  retrieve info about
  people we know

Question 6

how our PCC react to racially in vs. out groups individual

Answer 6

• Greater activation to strangers from our
  racial in-group compared to out-group
• Activation patterns suggest general
  sense of ‘familiarity’ for our own racial
  group

Question 7

Function of PFC for personal Knowledge

Answer 7

• Ventral Medial PFC
  (vmPFC)
• Social information
  processing
• Sensitive to ‘humanness’
• Theory of Mind tasks

Question 8

define Stereotype Content Model

Answer 8

• Friend vs. Foe judgement (warmth)
  – Is someone likely to help or harm you?
• Capability judgement (competence)
  – Can someone enact their intentions towards
  you?

Question 9

what method is good to measure the brain activation

Answer 9

ERP works shows we begin to process
race within 1/10th of a second following
face perception

Question 10

what are the higher order processing

Question 11

explain Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Answer 11

Moniter for conflits un automatic and intential responses