1 | Learned Helplessness | | _____ | I’m no good at all sport |
2 | Mastery Orientation | | _____ | Based on past experience and are unlikely to change in the short term (relatively permanent) |
3 | Self-serving Bias | | _____ | wrote the model of Attribution |
4 | Gender differences – females have lower | | _____ | then satisfaction would be less intense and motivation less |
5 | More likely to attribute success to luck | | _____ | observers can show bias |
6 | More likely to attribute success to ability | | _____ | females (Gender differences) |
7 | Gill’s research (Female Basketball) | | _____ | Problem caused by always blaming yourself for failure so end up believing that failure is inevitable |
8 | Reasons we give for success or failure | | _____ | If success attributed to internal controllable factors |
9 | Athletes need to be wary of self-serving bias | | _____ | This theory suggests if we assess our own performance – failure down to external factors and if watching someone else we blame internal reasons for failure |
10 | Task Difficulty | | _____ | performer outcome orientated & has bad past experience |
11 | Effort | | _____ | Dweck’s research (1975) |
12 | External | | _____ | Luck |
13 | Dissatisfaction | | _____ | locus of control |
14 | Luck | | _____ | to unstable factors and external factors out of one’s control |
15 | Ability | | _____ | Category of attribution – external, stable |
16 | Learned helplessness is linked to | | _____ | successes due to team mates & failure down to them as an individual |
17 | People vary in the degree they succumb to learned helplessness | | _____ | Athletes need to be wary of this – Tendency of athletes to attribute success to themselves and failure to external and unstable factors |
18 | Characteristic of Learned Helplessness | | _____ | e.g. I need to work harder in matches – category of attribution1 |
19 | Rarely tries new skills and future effort is limited | | _____ | Opposite of Learned Helplessness. A performer with this will continue to try. Success is in their control and repeatable |
20 | Global learned helplessness | | _____ | e.g. I am not a good gymnast |
21 | Specific learned helplessness | | _____ | This would be the overpowering emotion if failure was attributed to internal controllable factors causing motivation to be reduced |
22 | Any success will be lucky and not repeatable | | _____ | Ability |
23 | Unstable | | _____ | The extent to which reasons are out of the performer’s control and have little influence over |
24 | Stable | | _____ | conducted by Dweck with children (1975) |
25 | Observer-Actor Effect | | _____ | The extent to which we explain success or failure to things within the control of the performer and you have influence over |
26 | Motivation | | _____ | This is enhanced if pride and satisfaction are maximised buy success being attributed to internal controllable factors |
27 | Weiner | | _____ | e.g. Andy Murray talking about Djokovic following defeat in French Open - “What he's achieved the last 12 months is phenomenal; winning all the Grand Slams in one year is an amazing achievement.” |
28 | Behaviour that sport psychologists think you can predict if you know the reasons they give for success or failure | | _____ | Category of attribution – external, unstable – e.g. the umpire gave us a questionable penalty |
29 | Attributions do this | | _____ | one off efforts of change not enough |
30 | Task Difficulty | | _____ | I’m no good at badminton |
31 | Internal | | _____ | Changeable in short term, even within a game |
32 | “We did the best we could” | | _____ | learned helplessness |
33 | “I’m not that good a gymnast” | | _____ | Males (Gender differences) |
34 | “The rain caused the match to be abandoned and saved us” | | _____ | depending on their attributions |
35 | Pride and satisfaction maximised and motivation enhanced | | _____ | learning to attribute success and failure to the same reasons as high achievers |
36 | If success attributed to external & uncontrollable factors such as luck or task was very easy | | _____ | can lead to complacency |
37 | High achievers attribute success | | _____ | expectations of success then males |
38 | High achievers attribute failure | | _____ | Effort |
39 | Attribution retraining for low achievers | | _____ | Influence future behaviour |
40 | Attribution retraining research | | _____ | stable and internal factors in one’s control |
41 | Children who were encouraged to attribute failure to unstable aspects (e.g. effort) respond better to failure and perform better overall | | _____ | task persistence, level of performance, expectations, satisfaction with performance |
42 | Role of coach is | | _____ | are not always correct |
43 | Be mindful that | | _____ | Be mindful of that |
44 | There are gender differences when it comes to attribution | | _____ | to ensure reasons for success and failure are correctly attributed |
45 | Make attribution training ongoing | | _____ | Characteristics of learned helplessness |