People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference

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

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought