Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.

People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.

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.