After a competition, games players may explain their success or failure using a variety of factors called attributions. Some attributions may be damaging to the player’s future performances through the development of learned helplessness. What are the four main groups of (2 marks) ‘attributions’? 1. Luck 2. Effort 3. Task difficulty 4. Ability What do you understand by the term helplessness’ and what ‘learned strategies may a coach use to prevent this happening? (5 marks) 1. Learned helplessness idea that failure is inevitable/examples – 2. Can be applied globally or to specific situations 3. Normally caused by player attributing wrong factor to failure e.g. an internal and stable reason rather than external and unstable 4. Possibly leading to the idea of giving up even when success is possible/examples Strategies to overcome 5. Coach to enable player to achieve success/play weaker opposition/examples 6. Encourage view that success due to stable /internal factors ability/examples – 7. That failure due to unstable/external factors effort or luck/examples – 8. Attribution retraining
After a competition, games players may explain their success or failure using a variety of factors called attributions. Some attributions may be damaging to the player’s future performances through the development of learned helplessness. What are the four main groups of ‘attributions’? (2 marks) 1. Luck 2. Effort 3. Task difficulty 4. Ability What do you understand by the term ‘learned helplessness’ and what strategies may a coach use to prevent this happening? (5 marks) 1. Learned helplessness – idea that failure is inevitable/examples 2. Can be applied globally or to specific situations 3. Normally caused by player attributing wrong factor to failure e.g. an internal and stable reason rather than external and unstable 4. Possibly leading to the idea of giving up even when success is possible/examples Strategies to overcome 5. Coach to enable player to achieve success/play weaker opposition/examples 6. Encourage view that success due to stable /internal factors – ability/examples 7. That failure due to unstable/external factors – effort or luck/examples 8. Attribution retraining
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