341 Final Exam Quiz Questions

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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


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