Incongruities Between Self-efficacy And Action May Stem

Self Efficacious Children Tend To Attribute Their Successes To Ability, But Ability Attributions Affect Performance Indirectly Through Perceived Self-efficacy

Moreover, Joint Occurrences Tend To Be Better Recalled Than Instances When The Effect Does Not Occur. The Proneness To Remember Confirming Instances, But To Overlook Disconfirming Ones, Further Serves To Convert, In Thought, Coincidences Into Causalities.

Discrepancies Between Self-efficacy Judgment And Performance Will Arise When Either The Tasks Or The Circumstances Under Which They Are Performed Are Ambiguous

Misbeliefs In One's Inefficacy May Retard Development Of The Very Subskills Upon Which More Complex Performances Depend

The Performances Of Others Are Often Selected As Standards For Self-improvement Of Abilities