Practice question · Multiple choice
Bandura found that watching someone similar to you succeed raises your own belief that you can do it. Why should another person's success change your estimate of your own capability?
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- Ask what evidence you have about your own capability before you have tried.
- Why would similarity matter, if it were only about learning the technique?
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D. Because a similar person's performance is the best available evidence
Why
Similarity is the tell. If it were technique you would learn from any competent demonstrator; that it works best with someone like you shows the information is about what a person of your kind can do. It is weaker than doing it yourself, which is why mastery outranks it, and it is why peer-led programmes outperform expert-led ones.
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