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It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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Determination, Apathy, Doe

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Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

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Self, May, Tasks

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People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

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Hard Work, Self, People

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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

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Self, People, May

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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

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Self, Psychological, Domain

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

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Children, Self, Attributes

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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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Self, Information, Source

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

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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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Children, Information, Evaluation

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

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As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior

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Skills, Organization, Deployment

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

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People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

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Cutting, Self, People

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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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Past, Self, Skills

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

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Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

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Self, Outcomes, Causality

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Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s 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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Understanding, Evaluation, Social

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

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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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Children, Yield, Self

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

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Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

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Discrepancies Between, Self, Tasks

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Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

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Stress, Self, People

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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, People, Effort

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

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This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

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Communication, Reality, Sitting

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The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability

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Strong, Judging, Outcomes

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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

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Children, Information, Matter

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

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Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes

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Motivation, Self, Quality

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Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

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Emotional, Impact, Expectations

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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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Outcomes, Influence, Self Efficacy

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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

Albert Bandura

Self, Information, Influence

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It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

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Self, Social Behavior, Speak

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