Question

Attitudes can be defined as:

A. a mode of living that is identified by how people spend their time and resources and what they consider important in their environment.
B. the filtering of information.
C. a person’s enduring evaluation of his or her feelings about and behavioral tendencies toward an object or idea.
D. the way people see themselves compared to the way they believe other people see them.

Answer 1

C

Explanation:

In psychology, attitudes define a set of behavior, belief, emotions towards an object, things, and events. Attitudes often result in the upbringing of experience and they can have a powerful influence over behavior. While attitudes are enduring it can be changed by a person. Psychologist defines it as a learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way. This can be included in certain issues, objects or events. Such evaluation can be positive or negative but can be uncertain at some time.

For example, you have mixed feeling for a person at a certain time.

It has three components:

• Affect components

• Behavioral components

• Cognitive components