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

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

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

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

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.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.