Tara's Weight Out Using The Social Information Processing Model

Next, I will examine Tara and how she would weigh out using the social information processing model. The social information processing models takes into account the social responses someone has when placed in certain situations. The first step in this process is encoding. When in social dilemmas, I noticed that Tara would encode a smaller amount of cues that most unaggressive kids would. She failed to even seek outside information in ambiguous situations and act selectively to hostile and threatening environmental cues. The second step of the process in interpretation, which examines how the person in question interprets the dilemma. Tara would often take harmful jokes and hostility to heart. She would see it as a threat or as if everyone hated