One Cannot Afford To Be A Realist.

People's Conceptions About Themselves And The Nature Of Things Are Developed And Verified Through Four Different Processes: Direct Experience Of The Effects Produced By Their Actions, Vicarious Experience Of The Effects Produced By Somebody Else's Actions, Judgments Voiced By Others, And Derivation Of Further Knowledge From What They Already Know By Using Rules Of Inference

It Is No More Informative To Speak Of Self-efficacy In Global Terms Than To Speak Of Nonspecific Social Behavior

The Presence Of Many Interacting Influences, Including The Attainments Of Others, Create Further Leeway In How One's Performances And Outcomes Are Cognitively Appraised

The Evaluative Habits Developed In Sibling Interactions Undoubtedly Affect The Salience And Choice Of Comparative Referents In Self-ability Evaluations In Later Life

Self Efficacious Children Tend To Attribute Their Successes To Ability, But Ability Attributions Affect Performance Indirectly Through Perceived Self-efficacy