A company supervisor asks for volunteers from the first shift to help assemble a new binding machine that must be on-line within the next 24 hours. Grady lifts his chin and his shoulders, nods, and says, "I can do it." In the social cognitive perspective of Albert Bandura, Grady has appraised a desired outcome through self-evaluated


A. emotions.
B. strategies.
C. competencies.
D. expectancies.

i want to go with D, but I'm not 100% sure.

3 answers

D is correct.
It could be either C or D.

Check your book.
Competencies are self - evaluations that we bring to a situation. When we think we can do something, we’re more likely to try it than when we don’t think we’ll succeed.