{"id":223,"date":"2016-10-28T07:50:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylearningsource.wordpress.com\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2021-11-12T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T06:33:34","slug":"what-is-social-cognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/en\/autism\/autism-2\/what-is-social-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"What is social cognition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-cognition.En280117pdf.compressed.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-616\" src=\"http:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PDF-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do we see when we observe children, or for that matter adults, interacting and communicating with each other? We see their behaviour; we see people being together, chatting, sharing concerns or fun. But, if we observe closely we can also see some of what may underlie that behaviour:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people showing <strong>interest<\/strong> and <strong>motivation<\/strong> to interact and communicate,<\/li>\n<li>paying <strong>attention<\/strong> to others,<\/li>\n<li>making sense of what others are doing or saying \u2013 <strong>perceiving<\/strong> their <strong>intentions, desires and thinking<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>using <strong>reasoning<\/strong> to make their responses<\/li>\n<li>maintain the to-and-fro nature of interactions \u2013 being <strong>reciprocal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>showing concern about other\u2019s distress \u2013 <strong>empathising<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>sharing<\/strong> their interest with other, and<\/li>\n<li>enjoying being together \u2013 <strong>shared enjoyment<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social cognition<\/strong> is the psychological processes that make most of our social behaviour happen \u2013 motivation, attention, perception, processing, social reasoning, theory of mind to understand others\u2019 intentions, thinking and desires, empathising, sharing and the ability to be reciprocal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-233\" src=\"http:\/\/13.92.117.167\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/levels-of-being-social.jpg\" alt=\"levels-of-being-social\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/levels-of-being-social.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/levels-of-being-social-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/levels-of-being-social-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/levels-of-being-social-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/enablenet.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/levels-of-being-social-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it all just about being clever and using our intelligence? Well, only to a small degree; the processes we use to be social, to know how others think and feel, to respond to others, to empathise and to resolve social problems are different from those used for non-social problem solving; they are special for our social behaviour and are served by special networks and regions in our brains. These processes are specifically affected in conditions such as ASD.<\/p>\n<h3>Some special features of social cognition<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There are times when our social responses are rather automatic or learnt &#8211; we don\u2019t have to think to relate in these situations e.g. being respectful to elders or being nice to children. But, mostly we need our social cognition to be working well to relate with people, particularly with our peer group, otherwise we run the risk of being left out and ignored.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Social cognition is highly variable; there are large differences among individuals and societies.<\/li>\n<li>Social cognition requires extended tuning, by experience, during development; how we perceive and behave socially depends on that tuning.<\/li>\n<li>Social cognition, or how efficiently it functions, depends on the context; we understand social meaning better in some situations than in others.<\/li>\n<li>Social cognition draws on a large number of different brain structures and their connectivity. 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