Social Cognition Quiz

Study of Cognitive Processes Involved in Social Interactions:

• Social cognition refers to how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations.
• Social cognition includes four stages: encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing.
• Social cognition is a level of analysis that aims to understand social psychological phenomena by investigating the cognitive processes that underlie them.
• Social schemas theory is one theory of social cognition.
• Social psychologists have become increasingly interested in the influence of culture on social cognition.
• People of all cultures use schemas to understand the world, but the content of schemas has been found to differ for individuals based on their cultural upbringing.
• Cultural influences have been found to shape some of the basic ways in which people automatically perceive and think about their environment.
• Relational mobility is a measure of how much choice individuals have in terms of whom to form relationships with, including friendships, romantic partnerships, and work relations.
• Relational mobility is low in cultures with a subsistence economy that requires tight cooperation and coordination, such as farming, while it is high in cultures based on nomadic herding and in urban industrial cultures.
• Early interest in the relationship between brain function and social cognition includes the case of Phineas Gage.
• People with psychological disorders such as autism, psychosis, mood disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Williams syndrome, antisocial personality disorder, Fragile X and Turner's syndrome show differences in social behavior compared to their unaffected peers.
• The development of social cognitive processes in infants and children has also been researched extensively.