Saturday, September 15, 2012
Chapter Concept - Week 4
WOW! Chapter 9 is filled with numerous topics that I would enjoy to discuss, but unfortunately I can only pick one, otherwise I would fill up my entire blog with these engorged thoughts. One of the concepts that captured my attention the most, had to be the "Attitudes" section on pg. 244. To start off, I was particularly surprised that attitudes came in three different dimensions: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. I knew that attitudes are a mental structure which an individual acts upon based on his or her perspective. Yet the three forms revealed more depth. Cognitive dimension is basically our attitude towards a subject based on what an individual believes, or known factually, about the topic. Affective dimension is an individuals reaction or response to a topic emotionally. Behavioral dimension is the act, or the thought of an act, of what should be done, in which an individual portrays his or her attitude on a topic. The first thing that I think of when I describe attitude is "positive", not only because we were taught to express that in an interview or resume', but also because attitudes should reflect positive connotations. Then, after reading this section of chapter 9, my scope broadened a bit, for I felt as if I didn't truly understand the meaning of attitude. These three stages has allowed me to understand the importance of breaking down what attitude is, and being able to use the definition properly.
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There were a lot of concepts in Chapter 9, although I found a lot of them to be things we have been faced with. What made them interesting was that we probably never thought about them. On attitudes, it's the same: We've known this, just probably didn't realize it. The text showed us the components we would look at without thinking, and gave a more definite idea at what an attitude is. I found that interesting.
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