Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow :-
The problem of household garbage is common in most Indian cities. Despite the increasing concern for clean environment we do not know to what extent citizens are aware about how to dispose the garbage at home. Sanyogita, a high school teacher took the lead to organise a team comprising of her colleagues in school and started going door to door in the nearby colonies to educate people on how to separate domestic waste and hand it over to the garbage collection agencies. She also avidly read about methods used by other developed countries and felt distressed when she observed how callous some people were towards keeping a clean environment. The local newspapers appreciated Sanyogita's efforts and applauded her publicly. Sanyogita's students and children joined her mission to segregate garbage and send the bio-degradable waste to the nearby recycle plant.
"Sanyogita avidly read about methods used by other developed countries". Which component of attitude is being highlighted here?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Cognitive
Option (1) Affective — Incorrect. The affective aspect is the emotional component, like Sanyogita’s distress at people’s callousness. Reading is not a feeling.
Option (2) Behavioural — Incorrect. The behavioural aspect is the tendency to act towards the attitude object, like going door to door. Reading about methods gathers knowledge; it does not act on the environment.
Option (3) Cognitive — Correct. The thought component of an attitude is referred to as the cognitive aspect. By reading avidly about the methods of other countries, Sanyogita builds her information and views about a clean environment, as a positive view of a ‘green environment’ based on sufficient information is the cognitive component.
Option (4) Valence — Incorrect. Valence is not a component but a feature of an attitude: it tells whether the attitude is positive or negative towards the attitude object. Valence, extremeness, simplicity or complexity, and centrality are the four features of attitudes.
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. Taken together, these three aspects have been referred to as the A-B-C components (Affective-Behavioural-Cognitive components) of attitude.…” “Nature and Components of Attitudes … In addition to the affective, cognitive and behavioural components, attitudes also have other properties. Four significant features of attitudes are : Valence (positivity or negativity), Extremeness, Simplicity or Complexity (multiplexity), and Centrality.…”
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