Albert Bandura Quotes

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

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

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

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

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

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

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

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

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

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

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

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

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

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

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

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.