Which one of the following is NOT a significant property of attitude?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Quantity
Option (1) Valence — A property of attitudes (Incorrect). Valence tells whether an attitude is positive or negative towards the attitude object.
Option (2) Centrality — A property of attitudes (Incorrect). Centrality is the role of a particular attitude in the attitude system; a central attitude influences the other attitudes much more than a peripheral one.
Option (3) Extremeness — A property of attitudes (Incorrect). Extremeness tells how positive or negative an attitude is.
Option (4) Quantity — Not a property of attitudes (Correct). The four significant features of attitudes are valence, extremeness, simplicity or complexity (multiplexity) and centrality. ‘Quantity’ is not one of them; the nearest feature, multiplexity, counts the smaller attitudes within a broad attitude, not an amount of attitude.
NCERT (2025-26): “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.…” “…Centrality : This refers to the role of a particular attitude in the attitude system. An attitude with greater centrality would influence the other attitudes in the system much more than non-central (or peripheral) attitudes would.…” |