PSY BEH 101D Lecture 82: PSY BEH 101D - Self-Efficacy
17 Dec 2019
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Self-efficacy: the belief that one can master a situation and produce facorable outcomes. I can : self-efficacy influences a student"s choice of activities. Involves postponing immediate rewards in order to attain larger, more valuable rewards at a later point in time. More beneficial to set higher standards. academic achievement: teachers expectations are also important. Ethnicity and culture: ethnicity, when ethnicity and ses are investigated, ses predicts achievement better than ethnicity does. Study: african american children or children from low- income families benefited more than children from higher- income families when they did homework more frequently, had internet access at home, and had a community library card: cross-cultural comparisons: In reading and math, china ranked highest: united states is last in math, while greece is last in reading, poor performance of american students: asian teachers spent more of their time teaching math than did the american teachrs.
