Cognitive Quote by Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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…

— Albert Bandura

“Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and…

— Stephen Richards