Albert Bandura Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Self, Attributes

• Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Peers, Prestige

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

• How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Matter

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

• A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Evaluation

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

• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Way, Success And Failure

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

• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Yield, Self

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

• [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Social, Instruction

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

• 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.

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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