People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

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.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

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

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