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THE INFLUENCE OF TRAINING METHOD ON SELF‐EFFICACY AND IDEA GENERATION AMONG MANAGERS
Author(s) -
GIST MARILYN E.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1989.tb00675.x
Subject(s) - psychology , training (meteorology) , divergence (linguistics) , self efficacy , reinforcement , field (mathematics) , applied psychology , cognition , mathematics education , medical education , cognitive psychology , social psychology , mathematics , linguistics , physics , neuroscience , meteorology , pure mathematics , medicine , philosophy
This field experiment examined the influence of two training methods on self‐efficacy and performance during training for innovative problem solving. A training method composed of cognitive modeling with practice and reinforcement generated significantly higher participant self‐efficacy than a method involving lecture and practice alone. Participants in modeling training significantly outperformed those in the lecture condition on measures of the quantity and divergence of ideas generated. Findings are discussed in terms of training designs for innovative problem solving.