(1) "Attitude is a consistently edited and impulsive predisposition to a particular reaction to a particular thing, person or situation". - B. Kupuswami
(2) "Attitude is the mental and nervous readiness of a person towards a particular thing, person or situation." - Allport.
(3) "The constructive or prohibitive reaction we give to any other element, issue, idea, person, social group or thing in the social world is called attitude."-Warren and Byron.
(4) “Attitude represents a very basic aspect of all forms of thought. - Eto and Cassioptho.
- Attitudes are not innate but edited.
- Attitude is what a person receives from another person, family, school society and culture.
- Attitudes are formed from experience.
- Attitudes are constructive or prohibitive.
- They are not innate but edited.
- For example, if karela vegetables are made in the meal and the child is given another vegetable or pickle as an alternative to karela vegetables, then the attitude of the child towards karela vegetables is negative and the attitude towards pickles or other vegetables is constructive.
- Attitudes are often permanent.
- Attitudes gradually become ingrained once they are formed and if they persist for a long time, sometimes it becomes difficult to change them.
- Attitudes are mostly permanent.
- For example, child marriage is a common practice in many societies. Social reformers, religious leaders, have been trying for many years to eradicate it.
- But still it could not be completely removed.
- Attitudes are in relation to the thing or person.
- According to Allport, attitude is mental readiness towards a particular thing, person or situation.
- Attitude refers to something or a person.
- On the basis of which a person's behavior is revealed.
- For example, one class criticizes the semester system in education.
- While the other class praises him in his favor.
- Attitudes develop from person to group.
- Attitudes formed based on one's personal experience gradually become attached to other individuals, groups, castes or religions.
- So it can be said that attitude develops from individual to group.
- E.g. based on one or two experiences where the daughters of a rich family do not know how to do housework, the attitude that not all the daughters of a rich family know how to work is formed, i.e. the attitude extends from the individual to the group or community
- Attitudes are group-wide.
- Attitudes are similar in most people in the group.
- Attitudes are not individualistic but groupist.
- For example, Gandhiji's Quit India movement was widespread all over India.
- Attitudes are purposeful and emotional.
- Often attitudes are purposeful and emotional.
- Which attracts a person to favor or oppose another person or group.
- E.g. Classes with a very constructive attitude towards religion are not ready to accept scientific explanation of religion.
- Attitudes reflect a person's likes and dislikes.
- Attitudes reflect a person's likes and dislikes.
- Everyone likes or dislikes something or someone.
- That is, some people prefer something while some people don't like it.
- Here the person prefers to receive what they like and spend more time with the person they like.
- When a person prefers to stay away from an unpleasant thing or person.
- E.g. Students who do not like to do homework due to lack of interest in studies show dislike towards school teachers.
- So he always prefers to stay away from teachers.