The Self-Serving Bias One barrier to critical thinking is self-serving biases. I had this theory that if my actions do not need to be rationalized if the motives are good. The characteristics of others even post a threat. These situations can cause us to develop a self-serving attitude.
We're social creatures | | | | |who need interaction, and you use that to make points when they're important enough. When you deliver a message | | | | |face-to-face, it's strikingly different than when you do some kind of mass communication. If we're going to have | | | | |impact as leaders, we have a responsibility to communicate directly, eyeball-to-eyeball, and with authenticity."
English Advanced HSC “UNDERSTANDING NOURISHES BELONGING... A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING PREVENTS IT.” Demonstrate how your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing represent this interpretation of belonging. It is often in the nature of mankind to be hardwired to develop a sense of connection with one another, and this desire to connect can be described as the need to belong. Belonging refers to the state when one reaches a likeness or similarity – physical, emotional or otherwise, to another unit, for instance a community, place or ideal. However this likeness that is wished to be reached can only be thoroughly done so and encouraged if said person is completely aware of his or her surroundings and can understand the
The downplaying of racism may be a consequence of an incorrect understanding of the former’s relation to race. It may have been assumed that race was the primary phenomenon, and racism a secondary effect occurring subsequently.
It is about giving equal access and opportunities and getting rid of discrimination and intolerance. 1.1d Discrimination is a preconceived attitude towards members of a particular group formed only on the basis of their membership of that group that leads to less favorable or bad treatment of that person. The attitude is often resistant to change even in the light of new information. It is essential that you do not allow your prejudices to influence the way you work with individuals. 1.2 Direct discrimination could take place if individuals are treated less favourably or given a lower standard of service than other individuals because of their gender, race, ethnicity, culture, disability, religion, sexuality, class, mental health and age.
So how can we avoid this behavior if and when we recognize it as such? First we need to identify all the components Prejudice is usually a negative incorrect unjustified attitude or prejudgment directed towards someone based on personal views of a particular social group or groups. Someone that’s prejudice towards others may not act according to their beliefs, but still may not discriminate against them. One line of logic that is used is to justify ones prejudice and stereotypes is to justify the system used; by using social inequalities, they legitimizing beliefs, attitudes and myths. By placing emphasizing a lower-status groups weakness, according to their weaknesses and flaws, they justify those that are in a higher status maintaining the status quo and in doing so allowing the higher status individual to feel secure in their position.
We see the group to which we belong (the in-group) as being different from the others (the out-group), and members of the same group as being more similar than they are. Social categorization is one explanation for prejudice attitudes which leads to in-groups and
Racism and prejudice are interchangeable terms; the former is defined as one’s feeling of cultural and racial advantage over other cultures and races. In other words, one becomes a racist if he or she displays actions or live by ideologies out of the feeling of superiority. Whilst most people claim to be not racist, everyone is guilty of having been committed some forms of prejudice in one way or another. Helms has classified five statuses of racial identity construction model: conformity, dissonance, immersion-emersion, internalization, and integrative awareness (62). Conformity takes place when one sees his or her own race as inferior and learns to identify with the dominant and superior race, such as the White Americans.
To begin, simply stating that person perception is more complex than object perception solely based on the inclusion of emotional factors does not do the thought justice. It is vital to comprehend just what factors of emotion and behavior are present in order to understand to what extent they influence the perception. For instance, Kenny discusses the importance of stability in the distinction between object and person perception. Simply stated, "an individual's behavior changes when he or she is with different interaction partners," (18). In essence this means that a person's perception of another person tends to be more stable and involved based on our instinctual analysis of a person's behavior.
Self Knowledge & Self Esteem Social Psychology ------------------------------------------------- The topic about Self Knowledge and Self Esteem is about how individuals come to know and evaluate themselves using their own or others thoughts and behaviors of themselves. Nowadays, the way an individual is viewed in the world is very important when looking to see who they really are and how they will behave because of these views. Because the self is such a complicated and sensitive topic, to many it is also the most talked about topic out there. Whether it is seen in Movies, Ad Campaigns, Poems, Songs, or even just talked about amongst people being placed in a vulnerable conversation about the self is the most powerful influencer on how one behaves. People are very self-aware and with just one mention of the self the mood in the environment can change.