People Not Only Gain Understanding Through Reflection,

Dysfunctions Can Occur In Each Of The Self-regulatory Subfunctions-in How Personal Experiences Are Self-monitored And Cognitively Processed, In The Evaluative Self-standards That Are Adopted, And In The Evaluative Self-reactions To One's Own Behavior.. Problems At Any One Of These Points Can Create Self-dissatisfactions And Dejection. Dysfunctions In All Aspects Of The Self System Are Most Apt To Produce The Most Chronic Self-disparagement And Despondency

To The Extent That Children With Similar Characteristics Achieve Comparable Performance Levels, Using The Performances Of Similar Peers Is Likely To Yield More Accurate Self-appraisal Than Using The Accomplishments Of Dissimilar Peers

People’s Beliefs About Their Abilities Have A Profound Effect On Those Abilities.

Self-efficacy Beliefs Differ From Outcome Expectations, Judgments Of The Likely Consequence [that] Behavior Will Produce.

To Grant Thought Causal Efficacy Is Not To Invoke A Disembodied Mental State