PEDS303 Lecture Notes - Attribution (Psychology), Explanatory Style, Positive Psychology
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Why are attribution classifications important: attributions affect expectancy values for future success. Effort) on a similar task in the future. Tendency to habitually attribute failure (across domains) to internal-stable- uncontrollable factors (ex. Sense of learned helplessness athlete thinks there is nothing they can do to change the circumstance. If you constantly blame failure on things you cannot change, whats the point of showing up. I lost because im not good enough (internal) I lost because i don"t have enough ability (internal) We cant win with that strategy (external coach) Mind set (mental outlook): whats the point of even trying. Nothing i do will change the outcome (destined to fail) . Charlie brown pessimistic outlook and thinks his life is just failure after failure. Optimistic explanatory style (global across domains: habitually attribute failure (across domains) to external unstable factors (ex. Bad luck/weather) or internal unstable factors (ex. Personal effort was my focus where it needed to be)