Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes

What strikes as most important about the beliefs, values, and attitudes reading is a combination of all of them, and honestly most of what I read throughout this piece. The article explains that a belief is a grouping of different categories that leads an individual to think of them as true and hence reflect them. It is explained that the mind will only take into consideration what fits into the categories which have already been made. If there is a situation which occurs that does not fit into the categories, the mind will simply through it away and consciously only use that fits the standard. A belief can often times also be considered what is called a conviction. A conviction is when a person truly believes that a phenomenon is real. They believe that something or someone is really true are they will oppose anyone who does not agree. People get the beliefs from their own cultures or a person of power who they appoint. Values are explain in the article as the choices that people make about what is good and bad, right or wrong, so on and so forth. Attitudes are also another type of belief. It’s a belief which is similar to a conviction because it supports the beliefs of the individual and opposes all others. Beliefs, values, and attitudes of a person are what can lead to prejudice. Prejudice is a discrimination of a certain group. Prejudice can only happen in group membership meaning that a person has to be a part of a certain group in order to be prejudice. For example, since I am a college student I am part of college educated individuals, I can be prejudice to a group of people who do not attend college or do not have any college education. I feel that every individual should be aware of the beliefs, values, attitudes which are shaping them who they are and how they act towards all different types of people and groups. As a teacher in the classroom it’s their responsibility to not let their personal opinions get in the way of their job, which is to teach. There are also many behaviors that a prejudice person exhibits like antilocution, avoidance, discrimination, and etc. Teachers must be aware that they are not unconsciously demonstrating these behaviors towards their students.