Albert Bandura Quotes About Belief
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience
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It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
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Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions
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Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
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Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
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The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy
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Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
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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
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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
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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
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