Attitude formation is the result of a number of influences. what they have in common is that they are all forms of

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Explanation:

General and long lasting negative or positive opinion or feeling about an issue, object or person is called attitude. It occurs through persuasion of direct experience. Attitude directs behaviour and is important concept in psychology. There is no one dominant theory about attitude in psychology but three. The three theories about attitude formation are cognitive dissonance learning and functionalism. There are three component of attitude generally called ABC, A for affective, B for behavioural and C for cognitive.