Social Cognition and Social Perception: A Research Proposal for an Application of Training and Development

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SECTION 01: INTRODUCTION1

1.1 Background to the Research Topic1

1.2 Statement of Purpose2

1.3 Research Question and Objectives3

1.4 Research Concept and Variables3

SECTION 02: METHODOLOGY6

2.1 Qualitative Research Method6

2.2 Data Collection7

2.2.1 Primary Data8

2.2.2 Secondary Data8

2.3 Pilot run on Questionnaire9

2.4 Ethical Statement9

2.5 Potential Merits of Research10

REFERENCES11

SECTION 01: INTRODUCTION

This research will endeavour to gather information about various strategies, theories, concepts, techniques, and methods used to demonstrate social cognition and social perception. It will further describe a research proposal for training and development in a professional context.

In completing this research the information gathered will be used by investigating and analyzing former literatures, studies, and several theories proposed regarding perception and social cognition.

1.1 Background to the Research Topic

Choi, et.al (2005) affirms that at the most fundamental level; minds are controlled in manners that allow the thriving encoding, retrieval, and processing of challenges relevant to reproduction and survival. On common grounds, the mental manoeuvres, which are extremely important to accomplishing triumph in the countenance of such challenges, entail the recognition of threats and opportunities and the creation of suitable techniques for making use of or evading them. In the past decades, the minds of our hominid antecedents might have been principally concerned with tasks like identifying safe to eat and cooked substances and hazardous marauders. In contrast, the human mind in current modern environment has a huge assortment of preoccupations such as, philosophy, science, entertainment, arts, etc. The contemporary notion of human mind accounts for little direct association with reproductive and survival concerns. Relatively affluent cognitive capabilities as a species illustrate awfully social nature of human minds.

Social Cognition comprises of the collection of mental interventions that are particularly in synch to understanding, perceiving, and communicating with other people. These capabilities are essential to human psychology and have possibly permitted human beings' exceptional triumph as a species. Relatively psychologists have sophisticated a “social intelligence hypothesis”, which emphasizes that comparatively classy and flexible appearance of cognition arise in the framework of social pressures related to group living (Dijksterhuis, et.al, 2007).

A large of number of researches in social psychology are persuaded by two broad objectives that include, to comprehend the mental progressions entailed in how individuals perceive and understand the social world and to comprehend how self-progressions are constructed by the social world (Amodio, et.al, 2004). It can also be presumed that social psychologists are intensely involved in the interaction between interpersonal and intrapersonal processes. Majority social psychologists concur that neither can be comprehended in seclusion (Beauregard, et.al, 2001).

1.2 Statement of Purpose

The purpose of this research is to identity and relates the studies concepts and theories of social cognition and social perception to a research proposal for an application that include training and development plan in a professional environment.

The researcher will analyze, investigate, and come to a point in the form of the research hypothesis on the basis of studies conducted in the past.

This research will be both relational and ...