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Abstract
Our cognition, mental processing of ideas and production of information plays a very complex and imperative role in our day to day lives. Our cognition is what differentiates us from other creatures giving us the humanistic virtue. We can withstand only by sensing first and then processing to understand the situation that is on the surrounding environment. It is impossible for a person to cope up with myriad changes of environmental factors and elements without using the cognitive virtue only. Many a times we interpret situations wrongly due to our pre-conceived idea, causing problems that could have been avoided if proper judgment is made without taking sides that leads to a biased product. The expectations we have and the responses we give to situations partly influence the way we see and judge the world.
Introduction
Our hopes that we have, dreams that cherish and want to achieve, anxieties and fears triggered by the future uncertainties become prophesies that should be fulfilled and greatly influence the future to some degree. In addition, our inbuilt goals and the goals that we aspire to achieve also affect the course of our lives. Success of achieving our lives goals that we have set is determined by the knowledge of humanistic character, comprising the skills we have acquired and our planning in general. The relationships between us and other people are largely influenced by the following factors; attitudes towards people which might negative or positive, suspicions and pre-determined conclusions that we already have concerning other people. Both positive and negative attitude can be dangerous in their own course due the fact that a person can give somebody a characteristic which he or she is not (Dobson & Dobson,2009). Mostly this is drawn from the people appear rather than knowing the true behavior of a person. This conduct is influenced by the
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