Perceived Self Quotes

• We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

  Virginia Satir

  Life, Being Yourself, Positive Thinking

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• Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Boost, Efficacy

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• Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Anxiety, Doe

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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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• Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Arousal

  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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Outcomes, Causality

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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 influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Influence

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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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• 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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• Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Way, Efficacy

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• Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, War, Self

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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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