Memory And Cognition In Its Social Context
Download Memory And Cognition In Its Social Context PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Memory And Cognition In Its Social Context book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Memory and Cognition in Its Social Context
Author: Robert S. Wyer, Jr.
language: en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date: 2014-02-04
The first comprehensive theoretical formulation of the way people use information they receive about their social environments to make judgments and behavioral decisions, this volume focuses on the cognitive processes that underlie the use of social information. These include initial interpretation, the representations used to make inferences, and the transformation of these subjective inferences into overt judgment and behavior. In addition, it specifies the role of affect and emotion in information processing, and the role of self-knowledge at different stages of processing. The theoretical model presented here is the first to provide a conceptual integration of existing theory and research in all phases of social information processing. It not only accounts for the major portion of existing research findings, but permits several hypotheses to be generated concerning phenomena that have not yet been empirically investigated. Although focused here on the processing of information about people and events, the formulation proposed has implications for other domains such as personnel appraisal, political decision making, and consumer behavior.
Social Context and Cognitive Performance
Based on twenty years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. We all engage in social interactions, compare ourselves with other people, belong to social groups, and are the object of a myriad of categorisations. Not only do such social experiences affect cognition, but they actually determine its form and its content. Several experiments indeed reveal that cognitive performance depends on the relationship between the individual and the social context in which cognition takes place. And this relationship is not forged directly by features of the situation, but rather by personal construals of these features (most notably social comparison). This fact alone justifies granting the individual's social experiences a psychological status and it further strengthens the key idea of this book, namely that the social context only exists through the intervention of cognitive processes of contextualization (producing a "cognitive context of the self") such as those involved in autobiographical memory. A "social psychology of cognition" is suggested, in which the fashionable distinction between cognition and social cognition makes no sense. From this innovative perspective it is indeed more the social nature of the individual rather than that of the object to be processed that defines the social nature of cognition. Well-known phenomena such as social facilitation and social loafing as well as established educational practices are also re-examined from this perspective.
Social Cognition and Memory
Author: Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
language: en
Publisher: Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
Release Date:
Social Cognition and Memory What is social cognition? The role of social cognition in everyday life Key components of social cognition Perceiving and interpreting social cues Forming impressions of others Predicting and explaining behavior The relationship between social cognition and memory Encoding social information in memory The influence of schemas and stereotypes Selective attention and social information processing The role of context in social cognition Automatic vs. controlled social cognition Factors that affect social cognition Individual differences in social cognition abilities The development of social cognition across the lifespan Social cognition in childhood and adolescence Social cognition in adulthood and aging The impact of social cognitive deficits Social cognition in clinical populations Autism spectrum disorder and social cognition Schizophrenia and social cognitive impairments Alzheimer's disease and changes in social cognition Neurological basis of social cognition The role of the prefrontal cortex Amygdala and emotional processing in social cognition Mirror neurons and social cognition Measuring social cognition Behavioral assessments of social cognition Neuroimaging techniques in social cognition research Implications for real-world applications Improving social cognition through training Social cognition in the workplace Social cognition and interpersonal relationships Culturally-informed perspectives on social cognition Future directions in social cognition research Integrating social cognition with other cognitive domains Technological advances and social cognition Ethical considerations in social cognition research