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Class 12 Attitude and Social Cognition worksheet

CBSE Psychology. The A-B-C components and properties of attitudes, how attitudes form and change, balance, cognitive dissonance and the two-step concept. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.

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Sample questions

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Section A · multiple choice

  1. 1.

    An attitude’s three components are:

    1. source, message and target
    2. valence, centrality and balance
    3. id, ego and superego
    4. affective, behavioural and cognitive
    Answer

    (d) affective, behavioural and cognitive

  2. 2.

    Kabir joins a tree-planting drive. Which component of an attitude towards a green environment is this?

    1. centrality
    2. evaluative
    3. behavioural
    4. cognitive
    Answer

    (c) behavioural

  3. 3.

    Dev starts liking maths because of a cheerful maths teacher. How is this attitude being learned?

    1. modelling
    2. reward and punishment
    3. association
    4. exposure to information
    Answer

    (c) association

Section B · short answer

  1. 4.

    What is an attitude?

    Answer

    A state of mind, a set of views about an attitude object, with an evaluative feature, an emotional component and a tendency to act.

  2. 5.

    Type affective, cognitive or behavioural for each component. (a) Dev feels sad when a big tree is cut down. (b) Kabir feels happy on seeing a green park.

    Answer

    (a) affective (b) affective

Section C · long answer

  1. 6.

    Explain the A-B-C components of an attitude with an example.

    Answer

    For a “green environment”: the cognitive part is the positive view based on information, the affective part is feeling happy at greenery and sad when trees are cut, and the behavioural part is joining a tree-planting drive.

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