Efficacy and Technophobia

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Efficacy and Technophobia
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Self-efficacy and performance

• Defined as self perceptions of ability to perform
  a given behavior (Bandura 1977)
• S.E. ? intensity and persistence
• S.E. often predict behavior better than past
  performance
• Treatment promote change in behavior through
  changes in S.E.
• S.E. is malleable

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Self-efficacy can be influenced by

• Cognitive appraisal on ones achievment
• Difficulty of the task
• Amount of effort used
• Situational support
• Pattern and rate of success
• Vicarious experience (indirect experience)
• How others cope with their problems
• How similar are the model to the learner
• How clear are the results
• Verbal Persuasion
• Emotional/Physiological arousal

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S.E. and anxiety

• Perceived self-efficacy to exercise control over
  potentially threatening / aversive events plays a
  central role in anxiety arousal
• If S.E. in this aspect is low, then computer-
  using does not imply the absence of anxiety
• As computers are ever increasing, the avoidance
  strategy is impossible, and techno phobia can be
  even more prevalent.

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Locus of control

• Whether ones future behavior can be controlled
  by themselves (internal) or the environment
  (external)
• Computer skills to be acquirable
• Vs computer skills as entity (something you
  either good or bad at)

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Implication on training

• How would you differentiate between two kinds of
  trainingone is for performance, and the
  otheris for self-efficacy ?