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.

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

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

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.