CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Attitudes can be viewed as cognitive evaluations which are based on cognitive, emotional, and social factors. Attitude is a complex construct that involves three components: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. The cognitive component is the thoughts that lead to an attitude.

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 are more likely to be based on feelings, and some are more likely to be based on behaviors.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive component of attitude refers to the thought, perception or ideas of the person toward the object of the attitude. Affective component is about emotional reaction or feeling of the person toward the object of the attitude such as like or dislike.

Detailed explanation-4: -An attitude involves belief or disbelief, acceptance or rejection and favouring or not favouring some aspect of the environment. In order to measure attitudes, scales have been constructed consisting of short statements dealing with several aspects of some issue or institution under consideration.

Detailed explanation-5: -Attitudes can form through direct experience, social influence, formal education, conditioning processes, and observation.