When you do poorly on a test, you remind yourself of all the distractions you had at school that week. You are displaying

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The statement suggests that the individual is making excuses to justify their poor performance, which is a typical example of self-serving bias. This bias occurs when people attribute their successes to internal factors such as ability and effort, but their failures to external factors such as luck or the situation.

When You Do Poorly on a Test, You Remind Yourself