A child reads his sister a children's story about a little locomotive that reaches the top of a hill because it thinks it can. The idea in the story sounds most like Bandura's notion of
a. self-efficacy.
b. reciprocal determinism.
c. observational learning.
d. wishful thinking.
Answer: a. self-efficacy.
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