Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0407 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Self-Efficacy
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The idea
Self-efficacy is confidence in one's own ability to succeed at a particular task; high self-efficacy treats challenges as tasks to master and recovers quickly from setbacks.
In practice
A student confident in English but not in math shows that self-efficacy is domain-specific.
Where people slip
Low self-efficacy leads to avoiding hard tasks and dwelling on failures; unit seven develops the idea fully.
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