PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Mirror Neuron, Impression Formation, Social Perception
11 Feb 2019
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Certain neurons that are activated both when one performs an action oneself and when one observes another person perform that action. Perception action link in the brain. Activated by intention (e. g. , to grasp an object) not just the action: not just encoding an action, but encoding another person"s goal, very useful for social judgements and impressions. Tom simulation theory: tom arises from mental rehearsals of behaviours and states, mirror neurons support this, so does overlap between self-related and tom-related brain regions. Mirror neuron activity correlates with emotional empathy scales. Impression from top down: using preconceived ideas and schemas as (part of) the basis for impression formation, transference, false consensus. In therapy freud noticed how patients began to treat him like someone else in their life: key to therapy. Non-psychodynamic version: we apply attributes to unfamiliar people from similar others, positive and negative. Another idea with freudian associations: like projection.
