Part I: discussion Social competence is a complex and general concept. It contains concepts like cognition, emotion, social relations. It is defined as “The ability to achieve personal goals in social interaction while simultaneously maintaining positive relationships with others over time and across settings. “(Rubin & Rose-Krasnor, 1992) This article is going to discuss the following five concepts related to social competence. Cognition In psychology cognition is the process through the formation of the concept, perception, judgment and other mental activities or imagined to get knowledge, which is the mental function of individual to process information. For each person, the social environment in which he or she embedded provide the symbolic meaning of his or her representation and language expression. The society will be the newborns’ socialize and cognitive development environment. Through education, youngsters can develop cognition, in order to enhance their social competence. In the Social information processing model (Crick, N. R., & Dodge, K. A., 1994), it shows that people with higher social cognition level can easier to encode message and clarify goals adopted to social schemas and social knowledge. That means the social competence of a person varies directly with his or her cognition level. …show more content…
The behavioral skills such as conversation skills and prosocial behavior are examples of social behavioral. An individual’s behavioral skills may affect his or her social competence. In step five and six the social information processing model (Crick, N. R., & Dodge, K. A., 1994), it suggested that individual’s response decision, behavioral enactment and evaluation is depend on his or her social competence. If a person has better behavioral skills, it represent that he or she can easier to develop and enhance his or her social competence. Part II : Personal reflection After the research on the topic Social Competence, I have enriched the knowledge on this topic and the related theories and concepts. As part I mentioned, social competence has a lot of definitions, but I do believe the definition “The ability to achieve personal goals in social interaction while simultaneously maintaining positive relationships with others over time and across settings.” (Rubin & Rose-Krasnor, 1992) and the social competence prism (Rose-Krasnor, 1997) can express social competence most suitable. They suggested that a person who achieve high level of social competence should be able