341 Final Exam Quiz Questions
Why is theory of mind relevant to true imitation?
Because theory of mind enables us to take the perspective of other people.
_____________ are clumps of proteins that disrupt and destroy nerve cells, and occur in _______________.
beta-amyloid: Alzheimer's disease
Studies of imitation in humans and chimpanzees have shown that _____ are prone to copy the actions demonstrated by an adult human.
both species
A form of copying that involves replicating an outcome without replicating the specific motor acts describes:
emulation
Which type of memory ability is usually the first to show signs of impairment in people with Alzheimer's disease?
episodic memory
Which of these is NOT a socially mediated process of learning?
extinction
Alzheimer's is an inevitable outcome of aging:
false
Cultural learning only happens in human species.
false
Studies have shown a direct causal relationship between play violent video games and viewing violent movies and reduced empathy (as measured by time passed before helping someone in need)
false
AD can...
not be definitively confirmed until after death.
Which of the following is a symptom of Alzheimer's:
personality changes, working memory impairment, and episodic memory impairment
Unlike emulation and stimulus enhancement, this is needed for true imitation to take place:
perspective taking
Deficits in working memory in old age may be due to loss of neurons in the:
prefrontal cortex
Albert Bandura's famous Bobo Doll Experiment focused on what type of behavior?
socially acquired aggression
It was observed that some birds in England were learning to puncture the tops of milk bottles to get the cream. One explanation was that the birds' attention was being drawn to the milk bottles by other birds that had discovered this "trick." Which phenomenon does this explanation
stimulus enhancement
In Bandura's Bobo doll study, it was found that:
the children who were first exposed to aggression showed aggression towards the Bobo doll
In terms of brain pathology (disease), how is the hippocampus relevant to Alzheimer's disease?
the earliest brain-based symptoms occur in the hippocampus
______ is a specific category or type of ____.
Alzheimer's: Dementia
what is true of AD
Conditioning is one of the first memory abilities to show signs of impairment
A major difference between beta amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles is that:
neurofibrillary tangles happen within the interior of neurons and beta amyloid originates outside of neurons