Question

Vicenta is looking at a book at the local library when daina brushes past her, gently pushing vicenta backward. "wow, she is very rude," vicenta thinks. this is an example of social ________, which occurs when we make educated guesses about the efforts or motives of another person.

Answer 1

The answer for the blank space is cognition.

To complete the sentence: This is an example of social cognition. 

Social cognition means different things to different people. One definition is it studies how people processes social information, including storage, encoding, retrieval, and also the application to social situations, take the statement above as an example. It focuses on the way we think about how others play a major role in how we feel, think, and interact with everyone and everything around us.