The Effects Of Outcome Expectancies On Performance

In Any Given Instance, Behavior Can Be Predicted Best By Considering Both Self-efficacy And Outcome Beliefs . . . Different Patterns Of Self-efficacy And Outcome Beliefs Are Likely To Produce Different Psychological Effects

Self-appraisals Of Efficacy Are Reasonably Accurate, But They Diverge From Action Because People Do Not Know Fully What They Will Have To Do, Lack Information For Regulating Their Effort, Or Are Hindered By External Factors From Doing What They Can

Students Judge How Well They Might Do In A Chemistry Course From Knowing How Peers, Who Performed Comparably To Them In Physics, Fared In Chemistry

The Presence Of Many Interacting Influences, Including The Attainments Of Others, Create Further Leeway In How One's Performances And Outcomes Are Cognitively Appraised

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.