Albert Bandura Information Quotations

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

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 interest

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

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