HESP 137 - Ch. 2 Recognizing Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Developing an understanding of one’s own feelings and emotions so that you can discriminate among them and able to purposefully use them to guide your behaviors.

• intra - within

Interpersonal intelligence

Understanding the feelings, behavior, and motivations of those around you.

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Developing an understanding of one’s own feelings and emotions so that you can discriminate among them and able to purposefully use them to guide your behaviors.

• intra - within

Interpersonal intelligence

Understanding the feelings, behavior, and motivations of those around you.

Values

Strong beliefs and attitudes about the worth of a thought, idea, object, or course of action.

• personal - religious, importance of education, worth ethic, honesty
• professional - autonomy, altruism, compassion, critical thinking

Attitudes

Favorable or unfavorable emotions or sentiments toward individuals or groups that strongly predict behavior.

Ethnocentrism

The tendency to favor in-groups and disparage members of the out-groups.

Prejudice

Having a poor attitude toward an individual simply because he or she belongs to a group to which negative qualities have been assigned, resulting in erroneous assumptions.

Other types of discrimination besides race

• gender bias
• ageism
• HIV/AIDS
• mental illness
• obesity
• drug and alcohol addictions
• disability