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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
Psychologist
University Teacher
Reflection
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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 failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability
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Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
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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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Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
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People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others
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Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities
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It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
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If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
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Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
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It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
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Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.
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Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
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Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend
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Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.
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To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
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Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry
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