Riya's attitude towards recycling is described in four ways below. Identify the odd one out.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → She changes her view easily when someone argues well against it.
Option (1) She changes her view easily when someone argues well against it. — Correct. How easily a person is persuaded is persuasibility, a characteristic of the target of attitude change. It describes Riya as a person, not a feature of her attitude, so it is the odd one out.
Option (2) She holds her view about recycling very strongly. — Incorrect. How strongly she holds the view is the extremeness of the attitude. This too describes the attitude.
Option (3) Her view on recycling is linked to many of her other attitudes. — Incorrect. An attitude tied to many other attitudes has high centrality in her attitude system. It is a feature of the attitude.
Option (4) She sees recycling as something good rather than bad. — Incorrect. Seeing recycling as good or bad is the valence of the attitude, its positive or negative direction. It is a feature of the attitude itself.
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