Self Efficacy Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Knowing, Judging, Peers

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

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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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• 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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• One cannot afford to be a realist.

  Albert Bandura

  Realist

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Improvement, Standards

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• From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, People, Perspective

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Anxiety, Doe

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

  Albert Bandura

  People, Judging, Compare

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

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• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Cutting, Self, People

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• Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison

  Albert Bandura

  Understanding, Evaluation, Social

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

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• Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Way, Success And Failure

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

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• To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Yield, Self

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

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

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Social, Instruction

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

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• Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Peers, Prestige

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

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• For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Levels

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

  Albert Bandura

  Agency, People, Littles

  American Psychological Association Address, www.uky.edu. 1998.

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• When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, May

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

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Evaluation

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

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• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Perspective, Acting

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• People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference

  Albert Bandura

  People, Four, Different

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• People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions

  Albert Bandura

  People, Effort, Levels

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

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• Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently

  Albert Bandura

  Simple, Everyday, May

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

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

  Albert Bandura

  Adequacy, Standards, Attainment

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

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• The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

  Albert Bandura

  Outcomes, Influence, Attainment

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