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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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• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Motivation, Self, Quality

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• Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

  Albert Bandura

  Outcomes, Behavior, Self Efficacy

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

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• Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Evaluation, Standards

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• To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

  Albert Bandura

  States, Efficacy, Grants

  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

  Albert Bandura

  Skills, Organization, Deployment

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

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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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Arousal, Tasks

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

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• Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Views, Skills

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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.

  Albert Bandura

  Doe, Causality, Joints

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

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• Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

  Albert Bandura

  Teacher, Subjects

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