Attitudes

Definition
Human behavior is also triggered by the attitude. Own attitude Naturalife Greenworld sense as "the organization of opinion, a person's beliefs about the object or situation that is relatively steady relative who accompanied the particular feelings and provide a basis for the organism to make a response or behavior in some way it chooses." Or in simple language the attitude is the willingness to act against a thing.

Attitudes have some understanding and definition as follows:
• Attitude is the mental predisposition to commit an act (Kimmball Young (1945)
• Attitude is the constancy and uniqueness of a person's behavior in relation to human stimulus or specific events (Sheriff & sheriff 1956)
• Attitude is predidposisi learned to respond consistently in certain procedures and with respect to a particular object (Fishbein & Ajzen 1975)
• In conclusion pengertain attitude is the tendency to act and react to the stimulus or stimuli.

Components of attitudes
Attitude is the relationship of the various components comprising:
a. Cognitive components: the component that is composed on the basis of knowledge and information about objects owned by a person his or components associated with the knowledge, views, beliefs or how to perceive objects
b. Affective components: an evaluative component that is associated with a sense of happy and unhappy
c. Conative components: one's readiness to behave in a manner related to the object or component associated with the tendency to act toward the object

The characteristics of attitudes
Attitude has the following characteristics:
a. Attitudes are not innate
Means that human beings are born not bring a certain attitude on an object. Therefore, the attitudes are formed during development of the individual. Because formed during development of the attitudes can change, can be formed and studied. But the trend is permanent attitude.
b. Attitude is always associated with the object
Attitudes are formed because of the relationship with certain objects, through the perception of that object.
c. Attitudes can be fixed on one object and a set of objects
If someone has a negative attitude on one person maaka he will show a negative attitude in the group of people.
d. That attitude may last long and short
If attitude has become a value in one's life it will last long survive, but if the attitude has not been deep in oneself, relaatif attitudes can change.
e. Attitude containing feelings or motivation
Attitudes about something will be followed by a certain feeling, either positive or negative. Attitudes also contains the motivation or impetus to behave.