Awareness & Social Cognition

Question 1

2 models of awareness

Answer 1

1. Self knowledge- similar to intellectual awareness, understanding one’s own strengths/weaknesses
2. Online awareness- similar to emergent and anticipatory awareness, task and situational dependence

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 tasks difficult so you set yourself up w/ strategies

Question 5

3 domains of social cognition

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Deficits in conversational and narrative discourse

Answer 6

•failure to address the 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

Question 7

Social cognition general treatment approaches

Answer 7

•Metacognitive awareness and strategy training
•Insight building
•Partner training
•Personally relevant goals and goal attainment scaling

Group and project-based learning can be helpful. Practice both listening and speaking roles.