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Attitude - Coggle Diagram
Attitude
Functions of Attitude
- Knowledge function: understanding the world in a meaningful way
- Adjustment function: help people to adjust to their work environment
- Ego-defensive function: people use defense mechanisms to protect themselves from psychological harm.
Learning Theory
Classical conditioning:
When a naturally occurring stimulus is regularly combined with an environmental stimulus, the environmental stimulus eventually elicits a response that is comparable to the natural stimulus.
Operant Conditioning:
a method for humans and animals to learn to act in such a manner that they get rewards while avoiding punishment.
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What is Attitude?
- A combination of feelings, beliefs, and actions toward a certain item, person, thing, or event.
- Attitudes are frequently formed as a result of personal experience or upbringing, and they may have a significant impact on behaviour.
Components of Attitude
- Cognitive component:
- psychological assessment regarding ideas and opinions on the issue
- belief, knowledge and stereotype.
- Affective component:
- How an individual feel about the thing, person, topic, or event
- like or dislike
- Psychomotor/ Behavioral component:
- How people's attitude affects their actions
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Logical conclusion
- Developing attitude from other attitudes and belief:
- Our attitude at the start towards an object or a person is average. However, we measure many attitudes at the environment related to the object.
- To conclude attitude from behavior
- By studying our behaviour in relation to the object, we might build an attitude. We draw a conclusion and we form an attitude toward it.