Albert Bandura Quotes

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

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

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

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

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

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

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

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

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

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

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

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

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

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

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

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

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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

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

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

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

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.