Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.