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Soc Com Model
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 Social-Cognitive
Abilities
Social-cognition focuses on social knowledge and reasoning. The central questions addressed in social cognitive research are concerned with how individuals conceptualize and reason about their social world-the people they observe, the relations between people, and the groups in which individuals participate. A basic assumption in this field of inquiry is that the way a person thinks and reasons about others has a major effect on how one interacts with them. Social cognitive functioning provides a necessary foundation for children to successfully and appropriately select and carry out interpersonal goals. For school age children, these interpersonal goals usually take the form of important social behaviors such as gaining entry into an existing peer group, resolving conflicts or maintaining play. Guralnick (1999) argues that a child's level of social competence should be evaluated within the context of these socially relevant behaviors. Crick and Dodge (1994) have postulated a social cognitive processing model to explain how children conceptualize and reason about their social world. In their model, six interdependent core processes are involved in social performance. Difficulties in any one of these processes can lead to the enactment of strategies that are far less than optimal. The processes include:
We believe this model of social cognition provides a satisfying explanation of the underlying knowledge that is necessary for performing social communicative behaviors.
Behaviors | Cognitive
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