Physical Education A-Level
Application to success and failure in sport
What Application to success and failure in sport means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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In sport, a performer may attribute failure to low ability, poor luck or insufficient practice, and the chosen cause affects emotion, expectancy and motivation.
Topics that use Application to success and failure in sport
- Attribution theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Attribution
- Attribution retraining
- Attribution, emotion and expectancy
- Coach and teacher influence on attributions
- Controllability
- General learned helplessness
- Goal setting
- Learned helplessness
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