Social cognition and adolescent offenders
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Discuss social cognition (making sense of others) and its influence on young offenders.
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I want to begin by clarifying quite a few concepts with regards to social cognition and criminal adolescence. While you regard that social cognition refers to making sense of others, it is far more than that. Vygotsky proposed the social cognition learning model in which he noted that culture is the primary factor for individual development (Daniels, 1996). He also noted that a child's learning is affected by the culture of the family environment and the community the child develops in. On a neurocognitive level, Beer & Ochsner (2006) clarify that social cognition includes information processing about people, including the self, and about the norms and procedures of the social world (p. 98). The processes of learning norms occur at automatic ...
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