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Social Cognition refers re all those psychological processes that deal with die gathering and processing of information related to social objects. These include ail the processes that help in understanding, explaining and interpreting social behaviour. The processing of information related to social objects (particularly individual, groups, people, relationships; social issues) differs from the processing of information related to physical objects. People as social objects may themselves change as the cognitive process take place. Example, a teacher who observes a student in school may draw different conclusions about him/her than by student?s mother. The student may show a difference in his/her behavior, depending on who is watching him/her the teacher or die mother. Social cognition is guided by mental units called, schemas.
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