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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by attitude

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something that can perfectly be summed up in a single sassy hand gesture or uh [Man hand gesturing to a woman]

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maybe two...Here's the question which of the following is a component of attitude

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and here are potential answers.....Well we at shmoop like to think of attitude

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as kind of like socks at Christmas it's something people always seem ready to [Mother gives sock to son for Christmas]

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give to others even though they'd hate to receive it themselves well

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psychologically speaking attitudes are considered our evaluations of ideas evil [Angry face in persons brain and happy face appears]

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people, objects or anything else in the world around us they're most often

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positive or negative but can also sort of the dance in the gray area you know

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it's just like socks one person's attitude may be that snakes are [A snake slithering on the ground]

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disgusting another may think they're cute and cuddly a third might think

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they're fascinating but just creepy.. Psychologists tend to think of attitudes

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as having three major components all of which comprise the ABC model of attitude [ABC model of attitude diagram]

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let's first go through the two components that aren't on our list of

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potential answers beginning with A affective well this component refers to

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the emotional aspect of an attitude if you see a colorful wig and are [Man looks angry when seeing a man wearing a pink wig]

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immediately filled with blind rage this would explain the emotional component of

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your aggressive attitude towards clowns the third component of attitude is

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cognitive at C there, this describes the thoughts and beliefs one can hold

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while sure you can have an emotional reaction to clowns that's angry but if [Man angrily thinking about clowns]

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you'll also hold the belief that all clowns were a part of a secret clown

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society that strive toward world domination then this extremely paranoid

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belief would constitute the cognitive aspect of this attitude that leads us to

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fill in the B in our ABC model of attitudes and judging by our answers

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there's only one that fits the bill the behavioral component of your attitude

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refers to the way in which one behaves when exposed to whatever it is they [Doctors giving a thumbs up]

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formed an attitude about whether it's recoiling in fear at the sight of a

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snake or tying up and interrogating a clown in order to find out exactly who [Man ties a guy up to interrogate him]

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his clown leader is the component is all about action and it's the correct answer

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to our question, but to be honest the

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interrogation you know really isn't necessary the secret crown society

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leader is clearly lady gaga - check out her meat.. [Lady Gaga covered in meat on top of the Earth]

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