Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

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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.

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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 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.

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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

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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.

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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

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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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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.

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

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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 others

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

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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 inference

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Once established, reputations do not easily change.

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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.

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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

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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

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Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

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The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

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