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Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.