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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
Psychologist
University Teacher
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When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
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If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
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Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
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The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
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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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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
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Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills
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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 to greater effort.
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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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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
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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 to lead them to discount the import of the experience
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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
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To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers
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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
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Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
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