attitude

Examples of attitude in the following topics:

• Attitudes

  • Attitude is our evaluation of a person, an idea, or an object.
  • For example, you may hold a positive attitude toward recycling.
  • It is well accepted that attitudes can affect behaviors, and behaviors can affect attitudes, depending on the situation.
  • Explicit attitudes are deliberately formed attitudes that an individual is aware of having, and they can be measured by self-report and questionnaires.
  • The formation of many attitudes is believed to happen due to conditioning or social learning, and attitudes in general are expected to change with experience.

• Attitude and Health

  • Managing health requires understanding the influence of psychological factors (such as attitude and mood) and overall quality of life.
  • One psychological factor that influences physical health is one's attitudes.
  • An attitude can be thought of as a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, event, or ideas.
  • Implicit and explicit attitudes both affect people's behavior, though in different ways.
  • Examine the impacts of different attitudes and explanatory styles on health

• How Culture and Society Impact the Elderly

  • Butler defined ageism as a combination of three connected elements: prejudicial attitudes toward older people, old age, and the aging process; discriminatory practices against older people; and institutional practices and policies that perpetuate stereotypes about elderly people.
  • Research on age-related attitudes in the United States consistently finds that negative attitudes exceed positive attitudes toward older people because of their looks and behavior.
  • Research has found that people who hold more ageist attitudes or negative age-related stereotypes are more likely to face higher rates of depression as they get older.
  • In China, several studies have noted the attitude of filial piety, or deference and respect to one's parents and ancestors in all things, as defining all other virtues.

• Human Sexuality and Culture

  • Sexuality may be experienced and expressed in a variety of ways, including thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, practices, roles, and relationships.
  • The American researcher Alfred Kinsey was also a major influence in changing 20th-century attitudes about sex, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction continues to be a major center for the study of human sexuality today.
  • While the United States prides itself on being the land of the "free," it is rather restrictive compared to other industrialized nations when it comes to its citizens' general attitudes about sex.
  • American culture is particularly restrictive in its attitudes about sex when it comes to women and sexuality.
  • This illustrates how large a role society plays in shaping people's views when it comes to acceptable and unacceptable behaviors and attitudes toward sexuality.

• The Psychology of Recruiting and Selecting Employees

  • To find the best fit, managers create a list of relevant criteria composed of critical skills, behaviors, and attitudes for each position.
  • When making a hiring decision, it is critical to understand the applicant's personality style, values, motivations, and attitudes.
  • Personality tests can provide an accurate analysis of an applicant's attitudes and interpersonal skills.

• Prejudice

  • Prejudice is a baseless and usually negative attitude toward members of a group.
  • Then, the groups were entered in competition with one another in various camp games for prizes, which caused both groups to develop negative attitudes and behaviors towards the outgroup.
  • Research indicates that most prejudicial attitudes and biases are culturally learned and not innate, meaning these beliefs can also be unlearned.

• Cultural and Societal Influences on Adolescent Development

  • Although conflicts between children and parents increase during adolescence, they are often related to relatively minor issues; regarding more important life issues, many adolescents will still share the same attitudes and values as their parents.
  • The range of attitudes that a culture embraces on a particular topic affects the beliefs, lifestyles, and perceptions of its adolescents, and can have both positive and negative impacts on their development.
  • In the United States and many other parts of the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth face much discrimination and bullying by their peers based on the broader cultural attitudes about LGBTQ issues; many are ostracized from peer groups because they are seen to be breaking culturally based gender norms.

• Conformity

  • In psychology, conformity is defined as the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.
  • In psychology, conformity is defined as the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.

• Cultural Influences on Sexual Motivation

  • The American researcher Alfred Kinsey was also a major influence in changing 20th century attitudes about sex, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction continues to be a major center for the study of human sexuality.
  • Media serves to perpetuate a number of social scripts about sexual relationships and the sexual roles of men and women, many of which have been shown to have both empowering and problematic effects on people's (and especially women's) developing sexual identities and sexual attitudes.
  • This illustrates how large a role society plays in shaping people's views when it comes to the acceptable and unacceptable behaviors and attitudes towards sexuality.

• Research Methods for Evaluating Treatment Efficacy

  • Client characteristics, such as help-seeking attitudes and attachment style, have been found to be related to seeking out counseling, expectations of counseling, and outcomes.
  • The therapeutic relationship is defined as the feelings and attitudes that a client and therapist have toward one another and the manner in which those feelings and attitudes are expressed.