attribution Flashcards
what is the meaning of attribution
the process of giving reasons for behaviour and aserting causes for events
what attributions does weiners model have
ability, effort, task, difficulty, and luck
how many dimesions ae they arranged into
2
what are the two dimensions
loucus of causality
locus of stability
what happens in the locus of causality dimension
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
what happens in the locus of stability dimension
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
how is success explained in attribution theory
by internal; attributions- failure is explained by external attributions
what is attribution retraining
change a person tendancy to attribute success or failure ina negative way
attributi0on affects pride, satisfaction
what is learned helplessness
performers exhibit avoidance behaviours
what is the third dimesion
locus of controllability
what is locus of controllability
cover attributions under control of the performer and relates to the feelings of pride,satisfaction and guilt
what is self-serving bias
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
what is general learned helplessness
all sports
what is specific learned helplessness
one sport
what is the retraining strategies
-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
what happens to a high achievers motivation
high motive to achieve success
low motive to avoid failure
focuses on pride and on success
what happens to low achiever motivation
low motive to achieve success
high motive to avoid failure
focuses on shame and worry about failure
what happens to high achiever attributions
ascribes success to stable internal controllable factors
ascribes failure to unstable external uncontrollable factors
what happens to low achiever attributions
ascribes success to unstable external uncontrollable factors
ascribes failure to stable internal controllable factors
how are goals adopted for a high achiever
adopts task orientated goals
how are goals adopted for a low achiever
adopts outcome oriented goals
what is a high achiever task choice and persistence
seeks challenging tasks and competitive situations and stays with them
what is a low achiever task choice and persistence
avoids challenges seeks very difficult or very east tasks or competition and easily gives up
what is high achiever performance
performs well in front of evaluative audiences
what is low achiever performance
performs badly in front of evaluative audiences
