psychology topic social thinking everything about it ..

1. MADE BY – GIREESHA SHARMA

2. What is Social Thinking ?
The term Social Thinking was coined by Michelle
Garcia Winner in the late 1990s while working
with higher-functioning students, who were
expected to blend in with their peer group by
producing more nuanced social responses. This
theory views social skills as dynamic and
situational, not as something that can be taught
and then replicated across the school campus.

4. • instead, social skills appear to evolve from
one’s thinking about how one wants to be
perceived. So, the decision to use discrete
social skills (e.g. smiling versus “looking cool”,
standing casually versus formally,
swearing/speaking informally versus speaking
politely) are not based on memorizing specific
social rules (as often taught in our social skills
groups), but instead are based on a social
decision-making tree of thought that involves
dynamic and synergistic processing.

6. Social Learning and Social Thinking
The ability to think socially is required prior to
the production of social skills. As children age
up, successful social thinkers are able to
consider the points of view, emotions, thoughts,
beliefs, prior knowledge and intentions of others
(this is often called perspective-taking).

8. • For most people, this is an intuitive process
whereby we determine the meaning behind
the message and how to respond within
milliseconds. Social Thinking occurs
everywhere, when we talk, share space, walk
down the street, even when we read a novel
and relate to our pets. It is an intelligence
that integrates information across home,
work and community settings.

10. • Social Thinking also demonstrates the link
between one’s social learning abilities and his
or her related ability (or disability) when
processing and responding to school
curriculum based in the use of the social mind
(e.g., reading comprehension of literature,
some aspects of written expression, etc.).
Winner's ideas related to teaching social
thinking, which are all based on the research,
are the conceptual foundation for developing
treatments for those with social challenges.

12. • Social Thinking Strategies
• For the adolescent with advanced cognitive
and language skills, a discussion about the
“why” underlying the production of a skill
becomes crucial. A number of teaching
scaffolds have been developed to encourage
students to explore how “we all get along”
with one another, even when relating to
someone we do not know well. Individuals
are taught that thinking about the social
world can in turn help him/her to adapt
behaviors in an increasingly proficient
manner.

15. • While Social Thinking is relatively new in the
field of autism and special education, it is
closely linked with other types of Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy approaches such as Social
Stories, Hidden Curriculum,5-point scale, and
others, etc. The foundation of Social Thinking
is weighted heavily in well-known issues in
this population such as executive functioning,
central coherence issues, and perspective-
taking, only a handful of research has been
completed to date.

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