Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

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

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities