Match List-I (situations) with List-II (what each situation shows). C…

Match List-I (situations) with List-II (what each situation shows). Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

List-I	List-II
(A) Ravi believes that plastic bags harm the soil and block the city drains.	(I) Affective aspect
(B) Meena feels upset and angry whenever she sees plastic waste floating in the river.	(II) Opinion
(C) Arjun is inclined to carry a cloth bag whenever he goes to the vegetable market.	(III) Cognitive aspect
(D) Neha says the new canteen menu is fine, but it hardly matters to her whether her friends agree or disagree.	(IV) Behavioural (conative) aspect

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Ravi believes that plastic bags harm the soil and block the city drains.	(III) Cognitive aspect	Ravi holds a belief, a thought about plastic bags. The thought component of an attitude is its cognitive aspect.
(B) Meena feels upset and angry whenever she sees plastic waste floating in the river.	(I) Affective aspect	Meena's anger and upset are feelings about the attitude object. The emotional component is the affective aspect.
(C) Arjun is inclined to carry a cloth bag whenever he goes to the vegetable market.	(IV) Behavioural (conative) aspect	Arjun is ready to act in a set way towards plastic use. A tendency to act is the behavioural (conative) aspect; it is a readiness, not the act itself.
(D) Neha says the new canteen menu is fine, but it hardly matters to her whether her friends agree or disagree.	(II) Opinion	Neha's view is only a way of thinking, and she does not care if others agree. Such a view, with no emotional or action part, is an opinion, not an attitude.

Note: Rows A and D both describe a thought; the difference is how much the view matters to the person.

NCERT (2026-27): “NATURE AND COMPONENTS OF ATTITUDES …
The topics of some of these opinions may be only moderately important to you; they are simply ways of thinking, and it does not matter much to you that others agree or disagree with your views. On the other hand, you may find that some other topics are extremely important to you. If someone opposes or challenges your views about these topics, you get emotional. You may have made some of these views part of your behaviour. In other words, if your views are not merely thoughts, but also have emotional and action components, then these views are more than ‘opinions’; they are examples 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. …”