Albert Bandura Quotes

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• People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

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  People, Profound, Belief

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• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

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  Fear, Struggle, Self

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• Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

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  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

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  Self, Doe, Belief

  "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.

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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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  Believe, Thinking, People

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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

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  Reflection, Thinking, People

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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  People, Challenges, Tasks

  Albert Bandura (1997). “Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

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  Inspirational, Circumstances, Producers

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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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  Believe, Successful, Exercise

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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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  Mean, People, Psychology

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

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  Reality, Experience, Our Actions

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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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  Children, Way, Success And Failure

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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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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  Self, Textbooks, Tools

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• People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference

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  People, Four, Different

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• People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

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  People, Judging, Compare

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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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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  Theory

  APA Address, 1998.

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• Once established, reputations do not easily change.

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  Reputation, Self Efficacy

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

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  Self, Skills, Doubt

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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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  Thinking, Self, Might

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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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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  Strong, Effort, Attention

  "Self-efficacy Mechanism in Human Agency". American Psychologist, Volume 37, No. 2, February 1982.

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• People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

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  Self Esteem, Insecure, People

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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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  Self, People, Efficacy

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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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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  Thinking, Self, Skills

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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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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  People, Effort, Littles

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

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  Agency, People, Littles

  American Psychological Association Address, www.uky.edu. 1998.

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