In the Personality chapter, I have read and learned about perceived self-efficacy. The section about this important cognitive factor was very brief, but I gained a lot out of it. Based on Bandura’s cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy is one’s learned expectations about the possibility of achievement in assured situations. Seeing that this is an issue for me, I realize that my perceived self-efficacy about numerous things is very low in many cases. I …showed first 75 words of 369 total…

…showed last 75 words of 369 total…them if they truly deserve it. In high school, I had the most positive stance about everything I had attempted to do. My self-efficacy was pretty high at that point and time. Now, in college, things are different. I have had a negative mind-set about everything that I have attempted to do since I’ve started school. If I continue to do this, I will not reach my zenith of success. “Help me, perceived self-efficacy”!