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Personal

Development:
Knowing Oneself
five (5) different ways that influenced self-efficacy,
from the ideas of Albert Badura, a professor, and a
psychologist.

(a) Performance Experiences – if you are good at


achieving your specific goal, then you probably think
that you will achieve it again. When the opposite
happens, if you fail, you will often think that you will
fail again.
(b) Vicarious Performances – if others
achieved their goal or specific task, then you'll
come to believe that you will also achieve your
goal.
(c) Verbal Persuasion – it is when people tell
you whether they believe or not on what you
can do or cannot do. The effect of your self-
efficacy will depend on how that person
matters to you.
(d) Imaginal Performances – When you imagine
yourself doing well, then it will happen.
(e) The Affective States & Physical Sensations – if
your mood or emotion (e.g. shame) and physical
state (e.g. shaking) come together, it will affect
your self
efficacy. If negative mood connects with negative
physical sensation, the result will be negative. And if
it is positive, most likely the result will be positive.
Self and Identity
Have you tried to talk with yourself in front of the
mirror? What did you see? According to William
James, a psychologist, “the self is what happens
when I reflect upon ME". Taylor described the self
as a Reflective Project. How we see ourselves is
geared toward improving ourselves depending on a
lot of factors.
Dan McAdam, a psychologist, reiterated that even
there are many ways on how we reflect to improve
ourselves, it brings us back to these three (3)
categories:
1. Self as Social Actor
o We are portraying different roles and behaving for
every type/set of people in front of us since we all
care about what people think about us. It is
practically for social acceptance.
2. Self as Motivated Agent
o People act based on their purpose. They do
things based on their own dreams, desires,
and planned goals for the future. This,
though, is not easily identifiable since it is
self-conceptualized, unless it was shared
with us.
3. Self as Autobiographical Author
o He/she as the creator of his/her
own entire life story. It is about
how oneself is developed from
his/her past, up to the present, and
what he/she will become in the
future.
Judgment and
Decision Making
As an individual, you are expected
to act and decide on your own.
Most people tend to decide based
on the intuitions and available
information that could be a
hindrance in making a wise decision
and that could be a habit.
(Jhangiani 2020) Many of us place
far more trust in our instincts than
we should. And, even when we try to
think logically, the way we enter data
into formal decision-making
procedures is frequently biased.
For instance, you applied for different
courses in six (6) different universities,
and you were able to qualify in all. Now,
how will you decide? To help you, the idea
of Bazerman and Moore in 2013
reiterated by Jhangiani that suggests the
Six Steps on How to Make a Rational
Decision:
1. Define the Problem (select your most desired course);
2. Identify the criteria necessary to judge the multiple
options (list things
to be considered like location, facilities, prestige, etc.);
3. Weight the criteria (rank the criteria based on its
importance to you);
4. Generate alternatives (the schools that accepted you);
5. Rate each alternative on each criterion (rate each
school on the criteria you
have identified); and
6. Compute the optimal decision
Even the most significant judgments
are frequently based on limited
information and intuition. A totally
reasonable judgment or decision
requires a careful, systematic
process.
Thank you for
listening!

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