Humans are social creatures, and we would not be able to survive if we could not socialize with anyone. Since we can socialize, our horizons are broadened by a lot. Everyone has feelings and emotions. We have the ability to communicate amongst ourselves and we can also care and love for one another. We have relationships with each other which are based on cause and effect, and we have the ability to understand and obtain knowledge through our socialization. Our main goal in life is to try and make other people feel good. By doing that, we make ourselves feel good.
A lady named Dorothy Dinnerstein came up with the seven features of human cognition. The first one is motivated. The two types of motivation are intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic means that we do something for an internal purpose, and extrinsic means that we do something for an external purpose. A good example of intrinsic motivation in the movie Pawn Broker is Jesus, because he is motivated to be the best he can be. In that same movie, the character of Rodriguez is a good example of extrinsic motivation, because he would do whatever it takes to get what he wants (money). The second feature of human cognition is structure. We need order, like gender roles and the need for the world to be safe. In the movie Dr. Strangelove, it is illustrated that there .
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is a human tendency to focus on immediate contents, and to focus less on the more important larger issues. Human cognition is also flexibly focused, which means that it can be changed. A good example of this is Victor in the movie The Wild Child. Victor transformed from being wild to human. Socialization is another one of the features of human cognition because it is a validation of yourself by other people. Social creatures need to be in a social world, that is what makes us human (experiences, emotions, cognition, psychological, and social). Human cognition is affectively timed, which explains how emotions affect our experiences.