Briefly describe Jones & Harris’ Theory of the Fundamental Attribution Error and briefly explain its relevance to professional relationships. Describe a type of social cognition and analyse its importance to professional relationships.

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