Awareness & Social Cognition

Question 1

2 models of awareness

Answer 1

self-knowledge and online awareness

Question 2

Intellectual awareness

Answer 2

knowing what the deficit is

Question 3

Emerging awareness

Answer 3

recognizing how deficits play out when doing a task

Question 4

Anticipatory awareness

Answer 4

ability to anticipate that deficits will make task difficult so you set yourself up with strategies

Question 5

Define social cognition in 3 ways

Answer 5

1.perceptual processing of social information such as faces and emotional expressions (social perception)
2.grasping others’ cognitive or affective states (social understanding)
3.planning behaviors taking into consideration others’, in addition to one’s own, goals (social decision-making).

Question 6

Impairments in cognitive communication

Answer 6

conversational tone
effectiveness
flow
engagement
partner sensitive
conversation attention

Question 7

Intervention for cognitive communication

Answer 7

insight building
partner training
personally relevant goals
metacognitive awareness
strategy training

Question 8

Conversational and narrative discourse with poor social cognition

Answer 8

failure to address perspective of others
reduced comprehension of social implications
inaccurate or poorly structured discourse
disinhibited communication behaviors
difficulty responding to open-ended questions
lack of macrostructure cohesion and informativeness