AS - Attribution

Following on from last lesson, go online and find two more examples of managers / players being interviewed after a match.  (Your choice is added in below)

Look again at possible reasons they won or lost their last game.  Split into one of the four categories:

• Internal stable (ability)
• Internal unstable (effort)
• External stable (task difficulty)
• External unstable (luck)

Look at the following Padlet:

Attribution Padlet

This is from one of my previous A-level classes.  Look at the reasons they wrote down, they have for the most part put them down as controllable, uncontrollable, short term or long term aspects.  Now you need to add in which of the four categories from above each reason they stated falls into.

The diagram below can be used to explain the attribution theory.  Using the diagram, aim to explain the attribution process, use examples that you have already looked at to illustrate your answer.

AS - Goal Setting

AS - Steiners Model, Ringelman Effect and Social Loafing

Go to 'slide' number 22 on Steiner's Model and read through to 'slide' number 43 on Influences that cause social loafing.  Ensure you take suitable notes.

Consider the groups / teams listed below.  Then list in order the groups that require the highest level of cohesiveness.  Justify your order.
4 x 100m relay
Rowing quad
Tennis doubles
Hockey team
Volleyball team

A2 - Theories of Leadership

Review the different leadership theories from the Prezi (Trait, Social Learning, Interactionist) Then complete the following 20 mark question:

Some sports’ psychologists state that ‘good leaders in sport are born and not made’. Critically evaluate the trait, social learning and interactionist theories of leadership. Describe how autocratic and democratic leadership styles might affect lifestyle behaviour. [20]

This needs to be completed by Friday when I will collect your books in. Here is the

Examiners report on the question you are attempting:

Most candidates explained the leadership theories well but too many failed to evaluate these theories. Those that tried to balance the nature and nurture theories did well and also gave good practical examples to illustrate their points. Some candidates did not answer the second part of the question and could not then access the upper levels of the mark scheme. Those that did gave a good account of autocratic and democratic leadership styles. The better candidates linked these styles to behaviour related to a healthy lifestyle as required by the question. The best candidates wrote in a fluent style, used paragraphs and demonstrated purposeful planning.

A2 - Leadership

AS - Social facilitation and Inhibition

AS - Aggression theories

Use each of the theories to explain the aggression / assertion in the video below.

Using the videos below, explain which theory of aggression may explain the aggressive / assertive behaviour that is demonstrated.