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 Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism.
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
By exercising control over a few healthy habits, people can live longer, healthier lives and slow the process of aging.
People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.
Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.
We find that people's 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.
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.
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
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 are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem