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Albert Bandura Quotes

«People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.»
«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»
«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.»
«Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.»
«In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.»
«The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.»
«Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.»
Author: Albert Bandura | About: Action | Keywords: images, vicarious
«Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.»
«Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.»
«Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.»

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