Efficacy Quotes - Page 5

• In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Evaluation

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Social Behavior, Speak

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• In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Different, Patterns

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• The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Motivation, Self, Outcomes

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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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• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Thinking, Self, Skills

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

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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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• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Hard Work, Self, People

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• Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Influence

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• 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

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Outcomes, Causality

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• In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.33, Penguin

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• A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

  Moliere

  Book, Greek, Titles

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 426, Preface. Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1922.

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• He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Believe, Mean, Deceit

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• If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Believe, Goodness, Frightening

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

  Albert Bandura

  Assessment, Self, Yield

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• I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

  Anne Waldman

  Political, Language

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Strong, Groups, Would Be

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

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• [Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.

  Louis Berkhof

  Water Of Life, Baptism, Divine Power

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• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

  James A. Forbes

  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

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• God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

  Corliss Lamont

  Prayer, Intelligent, Men

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• Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

  John Ruskin

  Prayer, Mind, Atheism

  John Ruskin (1879). “Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.

  William James

  Cat, Night, Ideas

  William James (2007). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Achievement

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