Praise and self-efficacy

What is self-efficacy?

• A person's understanding of their own capabilities

• A person's level of intelligence

• A person's physical strength

• A person's emotional stability

How can past experiences affect self-efficacy?

• They have no effect on self-efficacy

• They can only lower self-efficacy

• They can lead to expectations about future performance

• They can only raise self-efficacy

What effect does repeated success have on self-efficacy?

• It lowers self-efficacy

• It raises self-efficacy

• It has no effect on self-efficacy

• It makes self-efficacy unpredictable

How can other people influence our self-efficacy?

• By providing financial support

• By giving negative or positive messages

• By controlling our daily routine

• By choosing our career path

Why are students with higher self-efficacy more likely to persist in tasks?

• Because they are afraid of failure

• Because they believe they will ultimately succeed

• Because they have more resources

• Because they have no other options

What is the importance of praising effort rather than performance?

• Effort is more visible than performance

• Students can change effort but not performance

• Performance is not important

• Effort is easier to measure

How can praise affect motivation?

• It decreases motivation

• It has no effect on motivation

• It can make you feel good and increase motivation

• It only affects motivation temporarily

What is a potential negative effect of internalising negative messages from others?

• It can improve your self-efficacy

• It can affect your belief in yourself

• It can make you more popular

• It can increase your intelligence

Why might people choose activities they are good at?

• Because they are forced to

• Because they are more likely to succeed

• Because they have no other interests

• Because they are paid to do so

What is the relationship between self-efficacy and task persistence?

• Higher self-efficacy leads to less task persistence

• Higher self-efficacy leads to greater task persistence

• There is no relationship between self-efficacy and task persistence

• Task persistence decreases self-efficacy