What Is the Best Definition for Self-Efficacy

question 20

Multiple Choice

What is the best definition for self-efficacy?

• A) the figurative "place" that is responsible for events in a person's life
• B) a person's belief she or he can take action and perform a specific task
• C) events that occur but are unrelated to behavior change
• D) events that occur but are beyond an individual's control

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Definitions:

Representational Ability

Piaget’s term for capacity to store mental images or symbols of objects and events.

Permanence

The state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely.

Coordination of Secondary Schemes

A developmental stage in infants around 8-12 months where they begin to combine learned behaviors in new ways.

Tertiary Circular

Relates to a stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development involving the purposeful adaptation of established behaviors in new contexts, observed in toddlers.