Quotes by Albert Bandura

“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 peoples 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.”

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in ones immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.