What are attitudes? What are the three components of attitudes? How do they work together? Provide an example of an attitude identifying each of the three components
What will be an ideal response?
* Attitudes are evaluative judgments about objects, people, and thoughts.
* Attitudes have affective, knowledge, and behavioral components.
* The affective component is associated with emotion.
* Knowledge is the cognitive component and includes the knowledge we have about an object or the focus of our attitude.
* The behavioral component includes what we do or say about something.
* The three components don't often work together perfectly; they clash sometimes and the strongest component wins out.
* The response should include an example of an attitude with the three components identified.
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