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| Social cognition: Social cognition in psychology refers to the processes by which people understand, interpret, and respond to the social world. It involves how individuals perceive, think about, and remember information about others and themselves. This includes the formation of judgments and attitudes, decoding of social cues, and the influence of social contexts on thought and behavior. See also Cognition, Social psychology, Social identity, Social behavior, Self, Self-consciousness, Behavior, Understanding._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Yuichi Shoda on Social Cognition - Dictionary of Arguments
Corr I 475 Social Cognition/Shoda/Smith: Social cognitive theory’s concept of reciprocal determinism (Bandura 1986)(1) provides a useful framework for analysing bidirectional causal interactions involving person, environment and behaviour. VsBandura: Mischel and Shoda’s (1995)(2) cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS) fleshed out the ‘person’ portion of the triadic framework by specifying important person variables and the processing dynamics that create a stable personality structure capable of producing situation-behaviour regularities. The CAPS model was inspired in part by recent information-processing, connectionist and neural network models in areas such as perception, social cognition and cognitive neuroscience (Read and Miller 1998(3); Rumelhart and McClelland 1986)(4). >Neural Networks/Rumelhart. Individuals differ in the chronic accessibility of network elements, that is, the ease with which the particular cognitive-affective units become activated (Higgins 1990)(5). They also differ in the levels of activation that occur in response to (a) elements of the ‘psychological situation’ that is being processed, and (b) the activity of other associated units, which can stimulate, inhibit or exert no influence on the unit. Solution: Mischel and Shoda’s person variables, or ‘cognitive-affective units’ include the person’s encoding (i.e., ‘construal’ or interpretation) of the self and of situations, expectancies (including stimulus-stimulus, response-outcome and self-efficacy expectancies), enduring goals and values, affective states and dis-positions, and competencies and self-regulation capabilities. >Self-Regulation. In this model, therefore, invariance resides not at the situation-behavioural level, but at the level of internal processing dynamics. >Control processes/Shoda/Smith. 1. Bandura, A. 1986. Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 2. Mischel, W. and Shoda, Y. 1995. A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure, Psychological Review 102: 246–68 3. Read, S. J. and Miller, L. C. (eds.) 1998.Connectionist and PDP models of social reasoning and social behaviour. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum 4. Rumelhart, D.E. and McClelland, J.L. 1986.Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vols. I and II. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 5. Higgins, E. T. 1990. Personality, social psychology, and person-situation relations: stand-ards and knowledge activation as a common language, in L. A. Pervin (ed.), Handbook of personality: theory and research, pp. 301–38. New York: Guilford Press Ronald E. Smith and Yuichi Shoda, “Personality as a cognitive-affective processing system“, in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.) 2009. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Shoda, Yuichi Corr I Philip J. Corr Gerald Matthews The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology New York 2009 Corr II Philip J. Corr (Ed.) Personality and Individual Differences - Revisiting the classical studies Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-23