Set Adaptation in The Formation of Estimation and Attitude: Print version was published: Materials of the scientific conference dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Dimitri Uznadze. 2016

Abstract

This article describes the attitude as a fundamental mechanism for estimation and action. Describes its adaptive nature. Postulated that attitude is individual’s high-level psychological state. Adaptation is understood as the process of bringing the individual’s attitude to the neutral value. By analogy with the classical experiments of the fixed set, explains the mechanism of how the adaptation, shifting the neutral ratio, generates a contrasting estimation. It is argued that if one individual shows the neutral attitude to the negative phenomenon, then by the second individual it estimated as positive and vice versa.