Social-Cognitive Deficits in normal Aging Quiz

What is mentalizing?

• awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes

• psychological process used to understand what others are thinking or feeling

• the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses

What were the three tasks that the participants were tested on?

• facial recognition, moral judgment, false belief

• mimicry, moral judgment, animate movement

• animate movement, moral judgment, false belief

• false belief, animate movement, facial recognition

1. The figure below shows the brain scans of the two groups of participants for the Animate Movement Task. As seen in the picture, the A participants showed significantly greater activity than the B participants. Which were the A participants and which were the B participants? 

• 1. A) older adults, B) younger adults

• 1. A) children, B) older adults

• A) younger adults, B) older adults

• 1. A) children, B) younger adults

1. Both younger and older participants performed better on (A)____ than (B)___ questions, but older adults correctly answered fewer (C ) ___ questions correctly than did young participants

• 1. (A) false belief, (B) false photo questions, (C) false belief

• 1. (A) false photo, (B) false belief questions, (C) false photo

1. What part of the brain did the study find primarily responsible for differences in response during social-cognitive tasks between younger and older participants?

• 1. Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

• 1. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

• 1. Anterior STS

• 1. Bilateral inferior frontal gyrus 

1. What was an additional possibility presented by existing literature on social cognition that may account for lower social cognition performance in older adults?

• 1. Older adults are more tired when completing these tasks

• 1. Older adults have greater difficulty with retaining information 

• 1. Older adults are more motivated which may cause greater anxiety when completing tasks

• 1. Older adults may be less motivated to perform well

1. Which of the following would best show less mentalizing in older adults than younger adults in the moral judgment task?

• 1. Neutral outcome, negative intention 

• 1. Negative outcome, neutral intention

• 1. Neutral outcome, neutral intention

• 1. Negative outcome, negative intention

1. More intriguingly, older adults in this earlier study also engaged the _____, an additional set of brain regions not typically associated with social cognition. 

• 1. Primary auditory cortex (A1)

• 1. Lateral prefrontal cortex

• 1. Primary valisu cortex (V1)

• 1. Cerebellum

1. In the false belief  task, a strong negative correlation was found between ______ and ______ among ______ participants.

• 1. Gender, performance, older

• 1. Gender, performance, younger

• 1. Age, performance, older 

• 1. Age, performance, younger