Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura OCis a psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University. For almost six decades, he has been responsible for contributions to the field of education and to many fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and was also influential in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. He is known as the originator of social learning theory and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth4 December 1925
CountryCanada
Albert Bandura quotes about
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others
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.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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.
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements