This presentation is about Attitudes, its components and importance of studying it in the field of Education.

1. ATTITUDES

3. ATTITUDES

4. • a mental predisposition
• degree of favor or
disfavor towards an act
or an object

6. Cognitions
-beliefs, theories,
expectancies, cause-and-effect
beliefs and perceptions
relative to the focal object

7. Affect
-our feeling with respect to the
focal object such as fear, liking,
or anger.

8. Behavioral
Intentions
-our goals, aspirations, and our
expected responses to the
attitude object

9. Evaluation
-central component of
attitudes
-consists of the imputation of
some degree of goodness or
badness to an attitude object

10. Why study
attitudes?

12. Checklists

13. Steps in the Construction of
a Checklist
Enumerate all the attributes and
characteristics you wish to observe.
Arrange these attributes as a “shopping list”
of characteristics
Ask the students to mark those attributes or
characteristics which are present and leave
those which are not.