Physical Education A-Level
General learned helplessness
What General learned helplessness means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of General learned helplessness
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The belief that failure will occur across all sports or situations, such as thinking 'I am hopeless at all physical activity'.
Topics that use General learned helplessness
- Attribution theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Application to success and failure in sport
- Attribution
- Attribution retraining
- Attribution, emotion and expectancy
- Coach and teacher influence on attributions
- Controllability
- Goal setting
- Learned helplessness
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