Albert Bandura Quotes
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Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances.
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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.
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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.
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Once established, reputations do not easily change.
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Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other.
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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.
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Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy.
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By exercising control over a few healthy habits, people can live longer, healthier lives and slow the process of aging.
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The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
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The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism.
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People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.
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Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps.
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When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort.
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Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities.
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Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency.
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As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.
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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.