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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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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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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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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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Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.
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To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
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People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera
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Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
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Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life... usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently
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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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A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation
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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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Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control
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Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others
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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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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 judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others
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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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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
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Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others
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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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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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What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
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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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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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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
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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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The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life
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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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Born:
December 4, 1925
Died:
July 26, 2021
(aged 95)
Bio:
Albert Bandura was a psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University.
Known for:
Self-Efficacy (1997)
Social Foundations of Thought and Action (1986)
Principles of behavior modification (1969)
Psychological modeling; conflicting theories (1971)
Social learning and personality development (1963)
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