week 6 dq response Nicole Lacey 

Social cognitive theory (SCT), is a beautiful concept which applies beautifully to most humans plus or minus 3 deviations from the mean. Or in non-statistical terms, 70-130 IQ of the MMPI and a dozen other tests benchmark. Most of those dozen IQ tests are based on the same mathematics, which has a very dubious and in some ways really nasty history if you look at the culture of both France and Minnesota at the time of the creation of the bench mark for those tests.

I could go on regarding SCT and part of its base in research which is close to the definition of amoral, but that is not the subject. The subject for this discussion is how does our family/caregivers apply to our lives as adults. For me I am neuro-a-typical, and I was raised in a household where if their actions occurred today at least 2 of my biological direct relatives would be doing to jail.

I have had to spend 40 years of my 48 years working very hard to see the SCT behavior patterns of my family, the old community (0-6 years old) and my raised community (6-22), and as an adult as far away from those types of cultures as I could get. Being neuro-a-typical I am not autistic nor am I Asperger’s, but I am neuro-a-typical just the same. Which means most social clues those plus or minus 3 deviations from the mean I have no idea those social clues exist.

I have been called Sheldon by about a dozen people who had zero contact or communication with each other. In this class I have been really sick for 3 weeks, so I have not had a chance to let my mind fill out what I can actually contribute. Plus for the last 4 years and the number of gradschools I have bounced through, I have through several extremely inappropriate situations learned that bringing my full mind and knowledge to class is the wrong thing to do.

SCT does not really apply to me or most neuro-a-typical people. We process information so differently and we usually do not pick up on most social clues which forms the benchmark for most social interactive behavior patterns to either emulate or reject. We cannot emulate or reject behaviors we simple either do not see or have no understanding of.