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“Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences” quote by Albert Bandura — Download Open image

“Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences”

Albert Bandura

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Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles…

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I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless,…

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

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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…

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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…

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Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of…

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

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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,…

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Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

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

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

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Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

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