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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Albert Bandura

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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
Psychologist
University Teacher
Circumstance
Producers
Products
Circumstances
Inspirational
Humans
Life

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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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In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience
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Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
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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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One cannot afford to be a realist.
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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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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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The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised
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People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
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Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
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Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
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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
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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
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Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
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