Albert Bandura Quotes
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Albert Bandura Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend
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
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
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
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
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.
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.
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 satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.