Chapter 6 Part 2 Cst229
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Beliefs and worldviews shape our attitudes. We form attitudes through socialization, experience, and personality. Attitudes have a direction (favorable or unfavorable), degree (how strong the feeling is), and endurance (how long the attitude has been held). Attitudes can change over time in response to new experiences or convincing arguments.
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Chapter 6 Part 2 Cst229
- 1. Chapter 6, part 2 Behavioral Guides
- 2. Beliefs Belief – we perceive some relationship between things that may not seem related Much of our thinking about how/why we exist come from beliefs and superstitions and/or creation myths
- 3. Worldview Assumptions and beliefs about the nature of reality, how the world started, why we are here, God, etc This ideas / beliefs color the way we act and see other in the world (are they doing things like we are? Are we correct, are we?)
- 4. Attitudes Groups of beliefs organized around a focal point that predisposes you to behave in a certain way ; learned tendencies on how to act toward certain things Emotional responses toward things / people; changes with learning and maturity
- 5. Attitude Formation We are not born with attitudes We form attitudes in the following ways: Socialization – our parents/friends try to instill the “right” attitudes in us Experience – we LEARN to like things that fill our needs and dislike those that do not
- 6. Attitude Formation 3. Personality – our overall personality colors our view of the world; if you are a pessimist, your attitudes will reflect that
- 7. Characteristics of Attitude 1. Direction – favorable or unfavorable feeling toward an issue, may also be non-feeling if it is not important 2. Degree – how strongly we feel toward an issues; again, can be non-feeling or apathy
- 8. Characteristics of Attitude 3. Endurance – how long we have held this idea; these can change as a result of shifting reference groups Attitudes can change in response to altered reinforcement contingencies – attitudes can change because people intentionally convince them to change