Social Context and Cognitive Performance: Towards a Social Psychology of Cognition - Rilegato

Huguet, Pascal; Monteil, Jean-Marc

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ISBN 10: 0863777848 ISBN 13: 9780863777844

Casa editrice: Psychology Press, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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Contenuti:

Introduction. Towards a Social Psychology of Cognition. The Cognitive and Social Bases of 'Insertion'. The Social Regulation of Academic Performances. An 'Autobiographical Attention Effect' : A Second Series of Studies. Preliminaries to a Social Comparison Feedback Theory. Social Facilitation and Inhibition : Markers and Thoughts. Social-cognitive Regulation in Co-working Group Contexts. Pointers for Educational Action. General Conclusion. References. Indices.

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Book by Huguet Pascal Monteil JeanMarc

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Psychology Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0863777848
• ISBN 13: 9780863777844
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176