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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Source

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Influence

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• People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

  Albert Bandura

  Hard Work, Self, People

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Outcomes, Causality

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• [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Influence

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• Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability

  Albert Bandura

  Thinking, Self, Skills

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes

  Albert Bandura

  Motivation, Self, Quality

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

  Albert Bandura

  Motivation, Self, Outcomes

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• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Self, Attributes

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• In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Different, Patterns

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• Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Effort

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Social Behavior, Speak

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• In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Evaluation

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• An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Reality, Sublime

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.27, Vintage

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• We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.

  Pope Francis

  Sight, Order, Evil

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.12, BookBaby

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• That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Medicine, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.440

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Toil, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

  Paul Walker

  Technology, People, Safety

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• . . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Branches, May, Arms

  The Federalist no. 78 (1788)

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• there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the state legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them? . . . This power must either be a direct negative on the state laws, or an authority in the federal courts, to over-rule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of union.

  James Madison

  Law, Giving, Negative

  Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2010). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.508, Modern Library

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• Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

  James Madison

  Powerful, Government, Defense

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.242, Courier Corporation

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• Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

  Franz Stampfl

  Sports, Believe, Hard Work

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• No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

  James Madison

  Religious, Party, Men

  "Federalist No. 10". Essay by James Madison, November 22, 1787.

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• For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

  Saint Augustine

  Baptized In, Baptism, Fonts

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