[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

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

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

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

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy