Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“They say a witch-doctor can't heal himself but I beg to differ. I have been in deep end but somehow Managed to… — Kwanele Booi Copy Share Image
Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics,… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
