Psychology, attitude, development. --- .This section is about the development of attitudes. Topics include: ( ) Causes. ( ) Change. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, attitude, development. --- After every experience (especially new experiences) the brain unconsciously says to itself "What did we learn from this experience?" Thus, we are constantly creating new attitudes. Sometimes we make a mistake when the wrong conclusion is drawn. --- 11/20/2001
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Attitude adjustment, change in attitude. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Attitude change, three hypotheses. (1) The more unconscious an attitude is the tougher it is to change. (2) The more basic and foundational an attitude is the tougher it is to change. (3) Attitudes that have a strong emotional component are tougher to change than attitudes within mild emotional component. --- 2/13/2002
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Attitude change. (1) You can have the same view but think more or less of it. (2) You can have a different view, but hold it just as strongly, and in same degree of positive or negative. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Attitude development depends on emotional development, thinking development, social development, and ethical development. (Ethics is a type of attitude?). --- 5/30/1998
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Causes. (1) First hand (figured out): positive, negative. Thinking for self. (2) Second hand (found out): positive, negative. Learning from others: family, peers, society. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Causes. (1) Genetics. (2) Experiences (1st hand). Environment: natural vs. manmade. People. Your behavior. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Causes. Adverse variables. Ignorance. Emotion problems: excess emotion, lack of emotion, or wrong emotion. Stress. Neurosis or psychosis. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Causes. At what age the experience occurs. Type of experience, duration, frequency, intensity. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Causes. Formation and development. Unconscious and conscious (directed conscious and undirected conscious). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. (1) Past, present, future attitudes (change, learning). (2) How easily changed, in what direction, by who. (3) How quickly, how permanently, by what method. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Attitude going into, during, and after an experience or event. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Change in attitude due to change in knowledge base, or change in reasoning types. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Everything we experience (mentally and physically), changes our attitude, to a greater or lesser degree, as we live. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Going in, preconceived attitudes, prejudice. Not too pro and not too contra. Optimism vs. pessimism. Expectations: high vs. low. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Historical development of world, society, and individual attitudes. (1) Past attitudes: best and worst. (2) Current attitudes: best and worst. (3) Future attitudes: best and worst. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. How an event or experience changes your attitude about a subject. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. How can I get you (or me) to change your mind? (1) Sometimes it happens instantly or quickly. Sometimes slowly, over a long period of time. (2) Sometimes it takes no work (natural, effortless). Sometimes it takes much work. (3) Sometimes it happens from within (figure out). Sometimes it happens from without (find out). (4) Sometimes it is for worse (decay). Sometimes it is for better (growth). --- 06/15/1994
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Momentary attitudes vs. permanent attitudes (reoccurring, enduring). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. To change your attitude: (1) Expose or reveal your attitudes. (2) Document your attitudes. (3) Critique your attitudes. --- 11/15/2000
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Variability in attitude: degree, speed. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. We are constantly forming and changing attitudes, all the time, on everything we experience physically and mentally. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Change. Your attitude about past, present, and future themselves is very important. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Conscious attitudes vs. unconscious attitudes. Your conscious attitudes are sometimes the result of a set of unconscious supporting or related attitudes. The unconscious attitudes might not be true, logical or optimal. To improve your conscious attitudes it often requires that you reveal and examine your unconscious attitudes. Here philosophy and psychotherapy have much in common. --- 6/12/2004
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Effects of holding any attitude. Things you do and do not do. Things that happen to you as a result of your actions. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- Effects of taking a different attitude. How much will taking a different attitude change my life? Changing attitudes with (1) Logic and reasoned argument. (2) Empirical evidence. (3) Emotional appeal. --- 6/1/1999
Psychology, attitude, development. --- How long it takes you to develop an optimal attitude for a situation (metaphysics), and for action (ethics). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, attitude, development. --- How to change attitude. (1) Change experiences. (A) Environment. (B) Actions. (2) Change thoughts. (A) New facts. (B) New reasoning. New logic. (3) Change emotions. (A) Develop new emotions. (B) Increase emotional knowledge. --- 3/24/2000
Psychology, attitude, development. --- To grow as a person is to create new and better attitudes toward everything. --- 11/8/2004