Checkpoint: The Three Main Components Of Attitudes

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CheckPoint: Attitudes Frederica Phoenix BEH/225 April 22, 2014 Melodie Miller CheckPoint: Attitudes An attitude is said to be a mixture of emotion and belief that is known to predispose a person in order to respond to other people, groups, or objects in either a negative or a positive way. Attitudes are thought to be expressed through emotions, beliefs, as well as actions. Attitudes are formed in several different but basic ways. There is what is called direct contact or personal experiences in which the attitude can derive from. Attitudes are also formed from what is known as chance conditioning. Chance conditioning simply means that leaning that is taking place by a coincidence or also by chance. Attitudes can also be formed when…show more content…
All of these things combined can change a person’s individual behavior in many ways. It is when you take all of these things and choose to combine them together which in turn will create a person’s attitude as well as their personality traits. The many different attitudes that are formed by each and every one of us have are the reasons that we have such a diverse group of people in the world all around us today. The three main components of attitudes are the belief component, the emotional component, and the action component. The Belief component is what each of us as human beings chooses to believe or think about when it comes to the object of an attitude. The Emotional component is simply a person’s feelings that they have towards the specific object of an attitude. The Action component is how a person tends to act or behave when it comes to dealing with the main object of each attitude. All three of these components of attitudes being Belief, Emotional, as well as Action are affected through persuasion, conformity, and biases in different but yet also similar ways. Persuasion is known as an attempt that is deliberately made to change beliefs or attitudes through arguments and information. Conformity is known as a person’s

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