AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Attitudes are not innate but learned, acquired and conditioned. They grow in the society in the minds of men through various modes of training. As a result of our first hand and second hand experience with objects, ideas, situations and through the process of social interaction and socializations attitudes grow.

Detailed explanation-2: -Our attitudes are inherited and also learned through direct and indirect experiences with the attitude objects. Some attitudes are more likely to be based on beliefs, some more likely to be based on feelings, and some more likely to be based on behaviors.

Detailed explanation-3: -In psychology, an attitude refers to a set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviors toward a particular object, person, thing, or event. Attitudes are often the result of experience or upbringing. They can have a powerful influence over behavior and affect how people act in various situations.

Detailed explanation-4: -the formation or change of an attitude as a result of the association of an attitude object with a pleasant or unpleasant stimulus in the environment.

Detailed explanation-5: -Attitudes are thought to develop via classical conditioning through repeated pairings of potential attitude objects (conditioned stimuli, CSs) with positively and negatively valenced stimuli (uncon-ditioned stimuli, USs), and intuitively, one would expect this to be a ubiquitous means of attitude formation.