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Question 11 pts

Which of the following is NOT an area indicated by Saxe and Kanwisher holding true and false beliefs attribution?

suprasylvian gyrus

medial prefrontal cortex

superior temporal sulcus

temporoparietal junction

 

 

Question 21 pts

A belief attribution is a volumetric pixel representing a small volume within the brain.

True

False

 

 

Question 31 pts

Mirror neurons in the area F5 of the macacque brain respond both when the monkey __________ and when the monkey _________ [mark two]

withdrwas from interactions

observes an experimenter or conspecific perform an action

approaches the experimenter

performs an action

 

 

Question 41 pts

According to standard simulationism, we predict other people's behavior, for example, by running our decision making processes offline, with pretend beliefs and desires as inputs. This has not been confirmed by neuroimaging studies.

True

False

 

 

Question 51 pts

Which of the following is NOT an area proposed as part of a dedicated theory of mind system by Saxe, Carey and Kanwisher (2004)?

temporal pole

fusiform gyrus

amygdala

Broca's area

 

 

Question 61 pts

According to Leslie, Metarepresentation first emerges as a capacity to attribute true beliefs at around 6 years of age.

right

wrong

 

 

Question 71 pts

Segun Alvin Goldman, we identify other people's beliefs and desires by analogy with our own beliefs and desires.

True

False

 

 

Question 81 pts

In an experiment by Mitchell,Bannerjee and Macrae (20050, subjects were scanned while answering questions about photographs of other people (some involving mindreading: others not). Subsequently they were asked how similar the person was to themselves. The main result indicated that

 

the activation in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex was lower in mindreading versions of task

the activation in the amygdala was higher in mindreading versions of task

there was no difference in activation between groups.

the activation in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex was higher in mindreading versions of task

 

 

Question 91 pts

In monkey cortex the evidence primarily shows that neurons are responsive to goal-directed movements

 

True

False

 

 

Question 101 pts

According to Leslie, the complex representation: I PRETEND "this banana is a telephone" is made out of two representations [mark two].

a decoupled representation of a banana

a manipulator that explains the meaning to the adult

an ordinary representation of a telephone

an imaginary friend holding a banana

 

 

Question 111 pts

According to Leslie, metarepresentation involves _______________________ of representations

second-order representations

physical symbols

false representations

transformational

 

 

Question 121 pts

According to Leslie, the pretend representations in children's play must preserve their ordinary meanings in pretend play.

True

False

 

 

Question 131 pts

Who expressed that "we cannot explain what is going on in pretend play simply with reference to the infant's primary representations"

Robin WIlliams

Alan Turing

Alan Leslie

Ivan Pavlov

 

 

Question 141 pts

In a false belief test, the general objective is to understand ...

wether adults understand that someone might have mistaken beliefs about the world.

test whether children can remember social situations with some level of detail.

wether young children understand that someone might have mistaken beliefs about the world.

explaining why Sally always hides the ball from a toddler.

 

 

Question 151 pts

Baron-Cohen and colleagues (1985) using the false belief task concluded that

autistic children have a highly specific mind-reading defect

autistic children overwhelmingly remember how many marbles there were

all of the above

autistic children failed the memory question

 

 

Question 161 pts

In the following task used by Baron-Cohen and colleagues (1985) to understand false beliefs in children, which is the correct order?

1. Re-enter Sally. 

2.Anne transfers Sally's marble to a box

3.Sally places her marbles in a basket.

4.The experimenter asks: Where will Sally look for the marble?

5.Exit Sally

5 - 4- 2 - 1-3

4 - 2 - 5 - 3 - 1

1 - 2 -4 -3 -5

3 - 5 - 2 - 1 - 4

 

 

Question 171 pts

Many studies revealed that autistic children's pretend play is very impoverished.

True

False

 

 

Question 181 pts

Both Leslie and Perner hold that mindreading is carried out by a ___________ cognitive system

active

invisible

dedicated

genetic

 

 

Question 191 pts

What sentence is true in relationship to patient SM, who had her amygdala destroyed on both sides of the brain by Urbach-Wiethe disease?

Patient SM is unable to recognize anger from facial expressions.

Patient SM does not have access to her mirror neuron system

Patient SM is fearless

Patient SM is unable to recognize facial expressions of disgust