Social cognition is essential to successful professional relationships: discuss.
• Main body: paragraph 2 — briefly describe Jones & Harris’ Theory of the Fundamental Attribution Error and briefly explain its relevance to professional relationships • Main body:
paragraph 3 — describe a type of social cognition and analyse its importance to professional relationships. Refer to research to demonstrate.
• Main body: paragraph 4 — describe a type of social cognition and analyse its importance to professional relationships. Refer to research to demonstrate.
• Conclusion — summarise key arguments and consider how important social cognition is to professional relationships The types of social cognition you could discuss include:
• Social attributions and the Fundamental Attribution Error
- • Primacy/recency effects
- • Stereotypes
- • Self-fulfilling prophecy
When you are analysing the importance of the different types of social cognition, make sure you consider:
- • How each type of social cognition could contribute to interactions between different individuals within a professional relationship
- • Possible issues that could arise due to this type of social cognition • How research has demonstrated the influence of these types of social cognition Analysis
An analysis should consider - • How the aspect of social cognition applies to professional relationships. • Research (studies by psvcnolocustst
