Blog Assignment Week 2: Your Personal Research Journey

Student Name: Angie Woods

The topic I chose to research is social cognition because I see children so much at work with less social cognition skills among their peers and other people. Children with less social cognition act out in the classroom just as well as on the playground outside. I feel that teachers have the lack of the helping the children build up social cognition. Because in most homes some parents does teach their children good social cognition.

Children’s social cognitions about their peers also become increasingly important understanding peer relationships in early, middle and late childhood. I was at work a boy accidentally trips and knock another child’s soft drink out of his hand. The child misinterprets the encounter as hostile, which leads him to retaliate aggressively against the boy. Through repeated encounters this kind, other children came to perceive the aggressive boy as habitually acting in inappropriate way.

Then my last current situation in the classroom was when my class came back from specials it was two little girls both girls do good in coloring but one little girl always color neat all the times. So the other little girl was already mad at the other little girl because she was doing her paper neat. So the other little girl came in the classroom before she made it back in then and got a dark color and scribble all over her neat work. Then when the other little girl mad it back to her paper she came to me and was in tears but other little girl did it because she got jealous of the other little girl because everything be neat all the time from her. Plus she didn’t want her paper neater then her paper. I would like to go feather in knowing more about social cognition. How as a teacher I can address social cognition in my classroom or a part of my daily teaching. Even though children play with other children but how today generation is with so many young mothers with children. I would love to have research on social cognition.