attribution

Question 1

what is the meaning of attribution

Answer 1

the process of giving reasons for behaviour and aserting causes for events

Question 2

what attributions does weiners model have

Answer 2

ability, effort, task, difficulty, and luck

Question 3

how many dimesions ae they arranged into

Answer 3

2

Question 4

what are the two dimensions

Answer 4

loucus of causality
locus of stability

Question 5

what happens in the locus of causality dimension

Answer 5

the performance outcome caused by internal and external factors:
internal under control of performer- ability- extent of performers capacity-effort- amount of physical and mental effort
external are beyond control performer-task difficulty- extent of problems-luck- factors by chance

Question 6

what happens in the locus of stability dimension

Answer 6

performance outcome caused by stable or unstable factors:
stable factors are fixed, don’t change with time-difficult skill but performance is habitual and a dominant habit that is stable
unstable factors vary with time effort/luck- tries too hard- inverted u

Question 7

how is success explained in attribution theory

Answer 7

by internal; attributions- failure is explained by external attributions

Question 8

what is attribution retraining

Answer 8

change a person tendancy to attribute success or failure ina negative way
attributi0on affects pride, satisfaction

Question 9

what is learned helplessness

Answer 9

performers exhibit avoidance behaviours

Question 10

what is the third dimesion

Answer 10

locus of controllability

Question 11

what is locus of controllability

Answer 11

cover attributions under control of the performer and relates to the feelings of pride,satisfaction and guilt

Question 12

what is self-serving bias

Answer 12

successful performers tend to take credit for success, they do this by attributing the success th their own qualities- natural ability
enhances the feeling of pride- tend to blame external factors for failure

failure is automatically attributed to avoid interanl controllable factors- self serving bias attributions are given to protect self esteem rather than true attributions

Question 13

what is general learned helplessness

Answer 13

all sports

Question 14

what is specific learned helplessness

Answer 14

one sport

Question 15

what is the retraining strategies

Answer 15

-process is required to avoid or recover from learned helplessness
-after failure, low achievers must learn to attribute success and failure in same way as high achievers
- success should be attributes to stable internal factors
-failure should be attributes to unstable external factors

Question 16

what happens to a high achievers motivation

Answer 16

high motive to achieve success
low motive to avoid failure
focuses on pride and on success

Question 17

what happens to low achiever motivation

Answer 17

low motive to achieve success
high motive to avoid failure
focuses on shame and worry about failure

Question 18

what happens to high achiever attributions

Answer 18

ascribes success to stable internal controllable factors
ascribes failure to unstable external uncontrollable factors

Question 19

what happens to low achiever attributions

Answer 19

ascribes success to unstable external uncontrollable factors
ascribes failure to stable internal controllable factors

Question 20

how are goals adopted for a high achiever

Answer 20

adopts task orientated goals

Question 21

how are goals adopted for a low achiever

Answer 21

adopts outcome oriented goals

Question 22

what is a high achiever task choice and persistence

Answer 22

seeks challenging tasks and competitive situations and stays with them

Question 23

what is a low achiever task choice and persistence

Answer 23

avoids challenges seeks very difficult or very east tasks or competition and easily gives up

Question 24

what is high achiever performance

Answer 24

performs well in front of evaluative audiences

Question 25

what is low achiever performance

Answer 25

performs badly in front of evaluative audiences