Choose a topic or issue that interests you such as not smoking in public restaur

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Choose a topic or issue that interests you such as not smoking in public restaurants, not drinking and driving, capital punishment, and the like. Using the four questions listed below, which were also listed in the chapter on how attitudes can predict behavior, describe how you would go about changing someone's attitude about your issue. You should also use the four ideas listed below that were discussed in this chapter. Are the person's attitudes strong? Is the person showing a strong awareness of his or her attitudes, and is he or she rehearsing and practicing them? Are the attitudes relevant to the behavior? Does the person have a vested interest in the issue? The Communicator The Message The Medium The Target

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In Social psychology it is believed that attitiude predict behaviour. Attitude influence the behaviour. Let us take a case of not smoking in public area

Ans1 )Attitudes are belief that guide the behaviour. An attitude is evaluation of any object. Attitide is the result if personal experience. there are many cognitive factors involved in forming attitude. There is positive and negative attitude which influences the behaviour in addition to resistance of attitude. Here the message is not to smoke. The communicator is the owner of the place or govt. Medium is through sign board and taret is people present over there. Hence a person who thinks more about society, health, pollution, rules etc would not smoke in public area. Whereas a person caring too much about his wants, addiction, disrepecting or neglecting rules would smoke in oublic area. Hence the person showing positive attitude would think much higher than ego defensive person having negative attitude.

Ans 2) This question is related to strength of attitude. Attitude is also combination of cognitive components (your thoughts and beliefs about the subject) and affective components.how the object, person, issue, or event makes you feel. Attitudes an be implicit and explicit. Explicit attitudes are thoughts, beliefs which are consciously aware of. Implicit are unconcious but still have effct on beleifs and behaviours. Hence the person having knowlede about how smoking affects society would not smoke but whereas a person still having knowledge but carrying ego would smoke.

Ans 3) Human beings hold attitide because they are useful. Our attitudes help us in quickly determining which subject to approach and which to aviod quickly. If a person has more positive outlook towards health and wealth of sociery or people around, he/she would not smoke in public area. If a person believes that society is there for his or her wellbeing, then the person would not smoke.

Ans 4) I don't think sp that in this case person has vested interest in the issue or a person is looking for any outcome.

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