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6. What percentage of people does autism affect?

  • 1%
  • 7%
  • 0.5%
  • 3%

7. What is mindblindness (Baron-Cohen, 1995)?

  • Unable to represent others' mental states
  • Unable to identity external cues of people's behaviour
  • Unable to understand their own feelings
  • Unable to act accordingly in a conversation

8. People with ASD are able to ______ the information but find it more difficult to interpret the _______

  • Understand, meaning
  • Process, meaning
  • Understand, process
  • Process, stimuli

9. What does the extra striate body area respond to?

  • Perception of any visual stimuli
  • Perception of bodies and faces
  • Perception of bodies
  • Perception of faces

10. What did Mitchell et al. (2004) find that the MPFC was activated by?

  • Understanding one's own emotions
  • Identifying others' external cues
  • Forming impressions of others
  • Determining others' emotions

11. What does Heider and Simmel's (1944) shape interaction show about humans?

  • We do not attribute mental states onto objects even though they are engaging in human like behaviour
  • We attribute mental states onto objects because they are engaging in human like behaviour
  • We attribute mental states onto objects even though they are not engaging in human like behaviour
  • We do not attribute mental states onto objects because they cannot engage in human behaviour

12. What are the STS and TPJ involved in (Frith & Frith, 2006)?

  • Monitoring gaze direction and perspective taking
  • Monitoring gaze direction and anticipating others' actions
  • Anticipating others' actions and sharing mental states
  • Perspective taking and anticipating other's actions

13. What does the superior temporal sulcus play a role in?

  • Detecting external cues from others
  • Detecting biological motion
  • Detecting facial expressions
  • Detecting others mental states

14. What activated the dMPFC the most?

  • Thinking about strangers
  • Thinking about dissimilar others
  • Thinking about similar others
  • Thinking about people you knew

15. What is not a part of theory of mind?

  • We are unable to reason and respond to other emotions etc. without external cues
  • Understanding others' mental states which can differ from our own
  • Using external cues to determine others' mental states
  • Reason and respond to others' beliefs, knowledge etc.

16. At what age does theory of mind become manifested in joint attention in infants?

  • 24 months
  • 6 months
  • 18 months
  • 12 months

17. What is the MPFC involved in?

  • Sharing mental states and perspective taking
  • Anticipating others actions and monitoring gaze direction
  • Anticipating others actions and sharing mental states
  • Perspective taking and monitoring gaze direction

18. What is an example of joint attention in an infant?

  • Looking where the parents finger then where they are pointing
  • Looking where the parent is pointing then at their finger
  • Looking at where the parent is pointing
  • Looking at the parents finger

19. What does the STS integrate biological motion with?

  • Facial expression
  • Mental states
  • Body language
  • Gaze direction

20. Which is not a characteristic of ASD?

  • Repetitive behaviours
  • Learning difficulties
  • Impaired perception of visual stimuli
  • Difficulty with social interaction