Knowra Social skills Social skills Social skills are learned abilities for communicating, interacting, and maintaining relationships effectively. They include behaviors such as listening, interpreting social cues, expressing needs, and adapting to others.
Active listening : A communication practice involving focused attention, understanding, and responsive feedback. Attending and responding carefully helps conversations feel reciprocal and understood.
Conversation : An interactive exchange of spoken or signed communication between people. Turn-taking, listening, and clear expression combine in ordinary conversation.
Social competence : The ability to achieve social goals while meeting the expectations of a particular context. Competence describes effective outcomes; social skills are abilities that can help produce them.
Interpersonal relationships : Connections between people formed through interaction, emotion, and shared experience. Communication and responsiveness help people establish and sustain these connections.
Social skills training : Structured instruction and practice intended to improve interpersonal behaviors. Training tests whether targeted practice can strengthen particular social abilities.
Nonverbal communication : Communication through cues such as facial expressions, gestures, posture, and vocal tone. Social interaction depends on interpreting signals that words alone do not convey.
Conflict resolution : The process of addressing disagreement and finding an acceptable way forward. Negotiating disagreements tests communication, emotional control, and perspective-taking.
Social intelligence : The capacity to understand social situations and respond effectively to them. Intelligence emphasizes understanding, while social skills emphasize learned abilities and behavior.
Social support : Practical, emotional, or informational help provided through relationships and social networks. Maintaining relationships can create access to support during difficulty.
Social learning theory : A theory that people learn behaviors by observing others and their consequences. Observation and reinforcement offer one account of how social behaviors are acquired.
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