Attitudes

• What is attitude ?

  An enduring evaluation of positive or negative of people objects or ideas
• What factors affect our attitudes ?

  Peer

  Media

  Friends

  Culture

  Past experiences

  Family

  Coaches / teachers
• What is the tragic model ?

  Cognitive - beliefs

  Affective - emotion

  Behavioural
• What is cognitive (beliefs) ?

  Formed through past experience and what we learn from others ( parents, peers, past experiences)
• What is affective (emotion) ?

  Experience satisfaction / enjoyment then will most likely enjoy similar experiences
• What is behavioural ?

  Not always consistent with attitude

  We are more likely to act in a way that reveals our attitudes
• What is persuasive communication ?

  Persuading an individual to change or altering their beliefs, attitudes, behaviour towards something
• What factors enable persuasive communication ?

  Persuader

  Massage

  Recipient

  Situation
• What is the persuader ?

  Needs to be a significant person , role model or leader
• What is the message ?

  Needs to make sense and believable also accurate and clear
• What is the recipient ?

  Needs to be open to the message / want to accept the message
• What is the situation ?

  Consider the environment its told in
• What is cognitive dissonance?

  When a person holds two ideas that conflict with each other

  Wants to perform at a high level but wont train
• How do you help cognitive dissonance ?

  Cognitive - provide new info to dispel old thoughts

  Affective - give a different experience = positive outcome

  Behavioural - simplify skill to increase chance of success
• What is a stereotype?

  A belief held by a collection of people about trains shared by a certain group of people
• What cause stereotypes ?

  Social pressure

  Media

  Significant others
• What is prejudice?

  Attitude that is based of inaccurate information or is unfair

  Prejudgement = evaluates situation before receiving adequate information
• What are positive attitudes in sport ?

  Believe in value of exercise

  Enjoy activity

  Good at activity

  Experience excitement from challenge

  Experience relaxation / escape from stress
• What are negative attitudes in sport ?

  Dislike experience involved

  Frightened to fail

  Experience stress / anxiety

  Social norm not to participate