Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
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.
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
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
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
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
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