Physical Education A-Level
Self-serving bias
What Self-serving bias means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Self-serving bias
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Reference: AQA
The tendency to attribute success to internal causes and failure to external causes, protecting self-esteem.
Topics that use Self-serving bias
- 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
- General learned helplessness
- Goal setting
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