When derek successfully completes a pass during a football game, he congratulates himself for his athletic skill. however, when he is unsuccessful at completing a pass, he attributes his failure to a wet football. this pattern of attributions best illustrates

   A self-serving bias

Explanation:  Another phenomenon studied in the field of social psychology is simply the tendency of people to attribute positive outcomes to themselves as an expression of their abilities, while attributing bad outcomes to some external "objective" circumstances. This kind of bias is visible in the sports as in this example but not only in sports, it can be seen in school, for example, in college when one considers his / her good grade for the reason that he / she has good predisposition for that material, i.e he / she is good in that material. not because s / he had a hard work of learning it.

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answer; interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance;