WHAT IS ATTITUDE?

Attitude is a statement of evaluation that we make when we encounter someone or something. It can be either positive or negative. Our attitude reflects how we feel about something and can impact our behavior towards it.

For instance, let’s consider a scenario where a teacher enters a classroom. Your thoughts and feelings about that teacher form your attitude towards him/her. If you think that the teacher is good-looking, it means that you have a favorable attitude towards him/her. On the other hand, if you feel that the teacher is not good-looking, your attitude towards him/her is unfavorable.

Three Main Components Of Attitudes  

• Cognition
• Affect
• Behavior

what is Cognition?

Cognition refers to our opinions or beliefs about someone or something. It is a general way of thinking about things.

 For example, if someone finds out that they are paid 20% less than their coworkers, they may form an opinion about their employer’s treatment of them

What is Affect?

 Affect refers to the emotional or feeling segment associated with that belief. It is the emotional effect that the opinion has on us.

For instance, if the person in the above example feels that they are not being treated fairly, they may feel angry about the situation

Another example of the effect is when someone is stuck in traffic and someone behind them is honking their horn repeatedly. This can cause the person to feel angry or frustrated.

What is Behaviour?

Behavior is the intention to behave in a certain way. When we do something according to our attitude is called behavior.

For instance, I was angry with my boss according to the given example and I went to him and started arguing with him this is my behavior towards him.

Let’s have an example of these three types of attitude. If you fall in love with a girl you think about her beauty her eyes her lips etc this is cognition.

After that, he started to come into your dreams and you feel happy when you think about her this is affect. Then you proposed to her this is your behavior

What is COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

Cognitive dissonance theory postulates that an underlying psychological tension is created when an individual’s behavior is inconsistent with his or her thoughts and beliefs

DOES BEHAVIOUR ALWAYS FOLLOWS FROM ATTITUDE?

Behavior doesn’t always align with attitude. Sometimes, we may have negative thoughts about someone but still politely talk to them. For instance, if we don’t like our teachers, we cannot misbehave with them and are forced to interact with them respectfully. In this case, our attitude toward the teacher may be negative, but our behavior toward them is positive.

In the depths where shadows dance,
Resides a tempest, a fiery trance.
Anger, a beast with eyes ablaze,
In the heart’s labyrinth, it plays.

It brews like storms upon the sea,
A force that longs to break free.
Its whispers, like thunder’s roar,
Echoing through the soul’s core.

A torrent of flames, a raging tide,
In its grip, reason seeks to hide.
It sears through veins, a molten stream,
A primal scream in the silent dream.

Yet beneath the fury, lies a plea,
A wounded soul longing to be free.
For anger masks a deeper pain,
A longing for peace, a gentle reign.

So let us not be consumed by wrath,
But seek the path of a gentler path.
For in understanding, we find release,
And from anger’s grasp, we find peace.

Momina batool

زلزلے کی طرح، غم و غصہ جھولے،
دل کے کناروں میں، اندھیرے بھرے چھائے۔
غضب، جلتی ہوئی آنکھوں کا جانور،
دل کی موڑ میں، اس کا کھیل کھیلاے۔

سمندر پر طوفان کی طرح بھڑکتا،
ایک قوت جو آزاد ہونے کی خواہش رکھتی ہے۔
اس کی سر زدہ، گرج کی طرح،
روح کے بیچوں میں گونجنے والی خاموشی میں۔

آگ کی طرح بھڑکتا ہے، ایک طوفانی سمندر،
اس کے گرفت میں، عقل چھپنے کی کوشش کرتی ہے۔
یہ رگوں میں پگھلتا ہے، ایک مولان ندی،
خاموش خواب میں، ایک قدرتی چیخ۔

لیکن غصہ کے نیچے، ایک التجا چھپا ہوتا ہے،
آس کے ایک شخص کی آزادی کی خواہش کی۔
کیونکہ غصہ ایک گہرے درد کو چھپاتا ہے،
پرامنی کی تلاش، ایک نرم اقتدار۔

لہذا ہم غصے میں غرق نہیں ہونا چاہئے،
بلکہ ایک نرم راہ کی طلب کرنا چاہئے۔
کیونکہ سمجھنے میں، ہم بری طرح آزادی پائیں گے،
اور غصے کے گرفت سے، ہم پرامنی پائیں گے۔

By Momina Batool