Amita is a student council member of her school who takes her commitment towards environmental preservation very seriously. She organises various plantation drives and also is in charge of the school recycle plant. She gets very upset and sad when she sees people wasting or misusing paper or cutting trees. Her parents are also famous environmentalists who campaigned for a ban of plastics in the hill areas. They always praised and motivated Amita to continue to be a pro-environment person.
Amita organises various plantation drives and manages the school recycle plant. What component of attitude is demonstrated here-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Behavioural
Option (1) Affective — Incorrect. The affective component is the emotional part of an attitude, such as feeling happy on seeing greenery or sad when trees are cut. Organising drives and running a plant are actions, not feelings.
Option (2) Behavioural — Correct. The behavioural (conative) component is the tendency to act in a particular way towards the attitude object. Taking an active part in a tree plantation campaign is the very example of the ‘B’ component of a ‘green environment’ attitude, and Amita organises plantation drives and manages the recycle plant.
Option (3) Cognitive — Incorrect. The cognitive component is the thought part: one’s view or belief about the attitude object, such as a positive view of a green environment based on information about it. The question describes what she does, not what she thinks.
Option (4) Simplicity — Incorrect. Simplicity or complexity is a feature of an attitude, along with valence, extremeness and centrality: it tells how many attitudes lie within a broader attitude. It is not one of the three components.
NCERT (2025-26): “Nature and Components of Attitudes … All definitions of attitudes agree that an attitude is a state of the mind, a set of views, or thoughts, regarding some topic (called the ‘attitude object’), which have an evaluative feature (positive, negative or neutral quality). It is accompanied by an emotional component, and a tendency to act in a particular way with regard to the attitude object. The thought component is referred to as the cognitive aspect, the emotional component is known as the affective aspect, and the tendency to act is called the behavioural (or conative) aspect.…”
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