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     Social cognition is the way our minds work in understanding the environment around us in order to function adaptively in it ( ( Robert A. Baron , 2003), the point here is social cognition are all efforts made in understanding the person's social environment and make adjustments to the environment .
Social cognition is a process that involves perception , evaluation and categorate others ( Tri Dayakisni , Hudaniah , 2009) . Social cognition in doing things one must do to perform the processing of information about what is seen on the social reality , then make observations , and collect in certain parts . Social cognition in social psychology is essentially also a human psychological activity based functions psychology itself , which aims to explain and predict about objects encountered by humans and then it will all boil down to the purpose of social cognition that is trying to do the right social understanding without making mistakes .
In social cognition , humans will be involved in understanding the social circumstances , namely through specific efforts in performing information processing .. In the reality of life , social understanding each individual's right is very important . Where the success of the individual in understanding the environmental or social realities will facilitate every individual to perform activities of identifying problems , describing the problem , evaluate the problem and then can solve problems and be able to provide appropriate solutions and then the individual can perform the interpretation and to predict correctly and appropriately .
Social cognition will not be separated from social understanding , where social understanding is the view that humans same perception is a cognitive process in which people are actively organizing observer , so it is not just a passive box , they motivated the need to develop an integrated and meaningful impression , not just love or hate ( David O sears , 1985) so that from above it is known that when a person's conduct social understanding then he is required to continue to be active in understanding the specific circumstances that are expected to perform with the understanding of the social environment without committing an error during the processing of information and determine the answers .
Tri Dayani and hudainah (2009 ) mentions in his book of social psychology , one of the efforts that must be made in understanding social do is to use the scheme as a cognitive organizer . Making based scheme because of the difficulty and the limitation of individual's ability to perform an accurate interpretation of behavior or human behavior . So with the systematically arranged scheme is expected to help facilitate human to perceive events information and then organize to be selective and precise .
Creation schemes in understanding and perceiving others usually viewed from a prominent characteristic of each individual , such as gender , social status , race, language , social behavior and others. According to Tri Dayakisni , Hudaniah (2009 ) there are four types of schemes , namely :
1 . self schemes
Schemes in self contained various characteristics that I owned myself , either physical or character nonphysical character .
2 . Person schemas
In which there is knowledge or information which contains the types or character of others , so the person schemas serves to classify the types of people
3 . scheme role
Inside there are various schemes of the norms or rules in accordance with the social reality .
4 . Scheme or script events
With the scheme expected incidence of someone being able to remember events that never experienced before .
From the explanation above, so we can know that the schemes mentioned above hopefully someone can perform correctly identify and describe the characteristics or character of being owned by each individual by means of categorization .
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