C2 - Attitude

Question 1

What is attitude?

Answer 1

Ideas charged with emotion that produce specific behaviour to a specific situation.

Question 2

What are the three parts of the triadic model?

Answer 2

Cognitive - your beliefs and thoughts, e.g a belief in exercise benefits.
Affective - your feelings or emotional responses, e.g enjoying training.
Behavioural - your actions or intended behaviour e.g train three times a week.

Question 3

How can attitudes be positive?

Answer 3

• Learned from role models
• Learned from enjoyable experiences
• Learned from beliefs
• Learned from influence over significant others.
• Learned from conditioned behaviour
• Familiarisation

Question 4

What is cognitive dissonance?

Answer 4

A challenge to existing beliefs causing ‘disharmony’ in an individual and a motivation to change attitudes.
- New information given to the performer to cause unease and motivate change.

Question 5

What is persuasive communication?

Answer 5

You can be talked around but it is hard if core beliefs are stable making people resilient to change.

Question 6

What are the three parts of the triadic model?

Answer 6

Cognitive
Affective
Behavioural

Question 7

What is cognitive?

Answer 7

Your beliefs and thoughts e.g a belief in exercise benefits.

Question 8

What is affective?

Answer 8

Your feelings or emotional responses, e.g enjoying training.

Question 9

What is behavioural?

Answer 9

Your actions or intended behaviour e.g training three times a week.

Question 10

How can negative attitudes change to positive attitudes?

Answer 10

• Persuasion from a perceived expert.
• Making it fun when training.
• Using positive reinforcement and rewards.
• Using role models.
• Cognitive dissonance.

Question 11

Explain attitude formation?

Answer 11

We learn from significant others when the information is reinforced or repeated.

• They are conditioned by behaviour that is successful and reinforced.
• Praise will develop a positive attitude between coach and player.
• This can be negative if behaviour learnt is negative. (E.g praise for cheating behaviour).

Question 12

Name ways cognitive dissonance can be used?

Answer 12

• Give new information to promote a person to question their current behaviour and motivate change- a coach may talk about a new method of training or type of strategy to challenge the current thinking.
• Making the activity fun or varying practice can make the situation more fun than expected thus changing opinion.
• Using rewards to promote positive behaviour, prizes for attending training .
• Bring in a specialist role model from another area to promote the topic.

Question 13

Name factors that help persuasive communication?

Answer 13

• The message needs to be understood
• Quality new information
• Situation/ Timing of when the message is given is important
• New information should outweigh old beliefs allowing a change in attitude
• The message should be given by someone of high status or a role model to have an effect
• The individual may be resistant to change