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
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In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
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
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
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.
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
One cannot afford to be a realist.
Once established, reputations do not easily change.
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.