Cognition has an impact on a lot of different areas such as: attention, perception, memory, problem solving and even production of language. This process focuses on the human behavior and how we think and behave. Psychologists often attempt to come up with an explanation for human behavior and then try to generalize that behavior to fit them with everyone’s behavior. However, people who have schizophrenia have a harder time to showing the basics of social cognition. Schizophrenia patients have a harder time than other when it comes to processing emotions, social perception of the overall theory of mind. They start to experience impairments in memory, attention and problem solving. They feel detached from other and the world around them.
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Some of the therapeutic tactics that were previously used do show to give a lot of hope in improving the social functions as well remediating the main psychotic symptoms. Researchers in the cognitive psychology field have defined schizophrenia as a group of clinical syndromes not just composed of positive and negative symptoms but is also tied in with a field of deficits in social cognition that is followed by impairment in the real-world social functioning. Social cognition is defined as “the ability to construct representations of the relations between oneself and others, and to use those representations flexibly to guide social behaviors”. When patients were ask if they would prefer to have their positive or negative symptoms or their social skills, most said that they would prefer to have their social skills back over their positive or negative …show more content…
All of the therapeutic interventions so far have mainly focused on improving social cognition while other factors such a motivation, metacognition and learning are being ignored. Poor motivation can lead to the patent refusing to put in their full potential and will prevent the patient from fully learning. Having lower metacognition also prevents the patient from actively use mentalistic information in order to solve problems. People with poor metacognition can also lose some social information. The three factors that have been ignored so far can also lead to poor engagement in social interactions and the ability to learn new social
Some of the therapeutic tactics that were previously used do show to give a lot of hope in improving the social functions as well remediating the main psychotic symptoms. Researchers in the cognitive psychology field have defined schizophrenia as a group of clinical syndromes not just composed of positive and negative symptoms but is also tied in with a field of deficits in social cognition that is followed by impairment in the real-world social functioning. Social cognition is defined as “the ability to construct representations of the relations between oneself and others, and to use those representations flexibly to guide social behaviors”. When patients were ask if they would prefer to have their positive or negative symptoms or their social skills, most said that they would prefer to have their social skills back over their positive or negative …show more content…
All of the therapeutic interventions so far have mainly focused on improving social cognition while other factors such a motivation, metacognition and learning are being ignored. Poor motivation can lead to the patent refusing to put in their full potential and will prevent the patient from fully learning. Having lower metacognition also prevents the patient from actively use mentalistic information in order to solve problems. People with poor metacognition can also lose some social information. The three factors that have been ignored so far can also lead to poor engagement in social interactions and the ability to learn new social