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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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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
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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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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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When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort
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Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
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Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes
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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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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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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
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Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other
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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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Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully
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Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
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Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
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Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
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Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of ones own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison
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[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy
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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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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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[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons
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