Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

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