TB9 B&B Lecture 4; Motor function and cognition

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Motor skill refers to...?
The ability to solve a motor problem correctly, quickly, rationally and resourcefully
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Are motor acts carried out in isolation from cognitive mechanisms?
No
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What are the three conditions for making a decision?
At least two possible choices, expectations can be predicted about outcomes, value of outcome can be assessed
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What is a normative theory?
Concept of probability, expected value and utility and bias when there are risks involved
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Is utility the same as economic value?
No, utility is psychological value
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What would be a manipulation to demonstrate framing effects?
Medicine that saves/kills
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What is a criticism of normative theories?
Do not actually represent real world behaviour
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What did normative theories lead to?
Prospect theory
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What is the main premise of descriptive theory?
People make decisions based on anticipated gains and losses which are subjectively assessed. Concept of availability
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How is game theory different from descriptive theories?
When multiple individuals are involved in a payoff matrix
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What is the strategy that should be used by rational individuals in the prisoners dilemma?
Nash equilibrium
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Where does the ventral tegmental area (midbrain) project to?
Limbic system and cortex
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What characterises the mesolimbic pathway?
Projections to nucleus accumbens (near ventral striatum), amygdala and hippocampus
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What characterises the mesocortical pathway?
All of the cortex but especially medial parts of the frontal lobe
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What does activity in the ventral tegmental area reflect?
The reward value of a stimulus
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Activity in ventral tegmental area...
Decreases in response to a reward and increases in response to the conditioning stimulus
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Dopamine activity is an index of...?
Reward prediction error
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What are increases in activity with unpredictable reward?
Nucleus accumbens
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At what age do humans develop ability to recognise false beliefs?
4 years
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