Albert Bandura Quotes

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

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Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

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In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

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We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling : from observi

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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.

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Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

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