Social cognition

 Social cognition


Social cognition refers to the ways by which a person interprets and analyzes the information received about his social world, remembers them and uses them according to his needs.

 According to Taylor, Peplau and Sears

"The study of how a person makes inferences from social information in the environment is called social cognition. ,"


  According to Reber and Reber

"Social cognition focuses on how a person perceives, interprets, thinks about, and interprets the actions of others and himself."

In social cognition the individual reaches a particular decision about the social environment on the basis of the information used.

In social cognition, a person makes social judgments about other persons, social groups, social roles and the feelings arising in himself in a social situation.

In social cognition, a person receives information from his social world and interprets and analyzes it.

  Tries to understand the social environment using these elements of social cognition


  1. Schema
  2. Attention or attention
  3.   Encoding
  4. Recovery

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