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One cannot afford to be a realist.

Albert Bandura

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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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Realist

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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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Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills
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People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions
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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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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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Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
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Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities
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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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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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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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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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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
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