Question

A baseball player's son is quite talented; he has received lots of awards over the years. When he gets up to bat he expects to get a hit, and when he is in the field he expects to make every catch. According to Bandura, what characteristic does this young man seem to have?

a) self-regard
b) self-centeredness
c) self-actualization
d) self-efficacy

Answer 1

Answer: D

Explanation: The characteristic this young man seems to have is self-efficacy. According to Bandura, this characteristic is related to how we perceive our own strenghts and flaws; if we are convinced that we have what it takes to develop certain activity with efficacy, we are well-determined and will probably get the results we're hoping for, otherwise we are probably not going to have good results. This implies that people have different levels of "self-efficacy" for different things and it's determined by our background among other things.