Attitude is the affect for or against a psychological object.
Affect in its primitive form is described as appetition or aversion.Appetition is the positive form of affect which in more sophisticated situations appears as liking the psychological objects,defending it,favoring it in various ways.Aversion is the negative form of affect which is described as hating the psychological object,disliking it,destroying it,or otherwise reacting against it.Attitude is here used to describe potential action toward the object with regard only to the question whether whether the potential action will be favorable or unfavorable toward the objects.In this sense the term attitude is an abstraction in that it cannot be described without inserting the cognitive details that are irrelevant;but this is also true of many of the simplest concepts in daily use.