Albert Bandura
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Learning
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.Collection: Failure
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.Collection: Time
In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.Collection: Society
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy in how you perform.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.
I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period.
As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as 'defensive jihad,' provoked by 'debauched infidels' bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed 'ignorant parents' for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture.
The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.
When I'm introduced at invited lectures at other universities, the students place a Bobo doll by the lectern. From time to time, I have been asked to autograph one. The Bobo doll has achieved stardom in psychological circles.
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.Collection: People
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.Collection: Self
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 observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.Collection: Ideas
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.Collection: Reflection
What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.Collection: Believe
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.Collection: Inspirational
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.Collection: People
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of othersCollection: People
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.Collection: Mean
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.Collection: Theory
Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of othersCollection: Children
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.Collection: Self
After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.Collection: Adversity
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inferenceCollection: People
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.Collection: Self
Once established, reputations do not easily change.Collection: Reputation
One cannot afford to be a realist.Collection: Realist
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.Collection: Philosophy
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processesCollection: Adequacy
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery processCollection: Discovery
This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.Collection: Communication
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 experienceCollection: Self
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances dependCollection: Development
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impactCollection: Emotional
How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interestCollection: Children
People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubtsCollection: Cutting