Describe the components and dimensions of attitudes, the correlates of attitude strength, and the relations between attitudes and behavior
What will be an ideal response?
Attitudes are positive or negative evaluations of objects of thought, with cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. Attitudes also have the dimensions of strength, accessibility, and ambivalence. Attitudes and behavior are not as consistent as one might assume, in part because attitude strength varies, and in part because attitudes only create predispositions to behave in certain ways. Inconsistent relations between attitudes and behavior are seen because behavior depends on situational constraints—especially your subjective perceptions of how people expect you to behave. Attitudes interact with situational norms to shape people's intentions, which then determine behavior.
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