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Attitude and Social Cognition

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Psychology

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Nature and Components of Attitudes

  • Attitudes are states of mind or sets of views about an attitude object.
  • An attitude has three components: cognitive, affective, and behavioural.
  • The cognitive component is the thought or belief aspect.
2

Attitude Formation

  • Attitudes towards different topics, things and people are formed as people interact with others.
  • Attitudes are learned through personal experience and social interaction.
  • Genetic factors influence attitudes only indirectly, along with learning.
3

Attitude Change

  • Attitudes that are still forming are easier to change than firmly established attitudes.
  • Positive attitudes are easier to change than negative attitudes.
  • Extreme and central attitudes are harder to change than less extreme and peripheral attitudes.
4

Major Theories and Studies of Attitude Change

  • Fritz Heider proposed the concept of balance.
  • Balance theory uses the P-O-X triangle.
  • Leon Festinger proposed cognitive dissonance.

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Key Concepts

An attitude is a stateThe three components of attitudeBeliefs form the cognitive groundValence means whether an attitudeExtremeness shows how strongly positive

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