Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-r5fsc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T21:12:11.990Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Difficulties of Learning From Experience and the Need for Deliberate Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

David V. Day*
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway (M261), Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bloom, B. S. (1985a). The nature of the study and why it was done. In Bloom, B. S. (Ed.), Developing talent in young people (pp. 318). New York: Ballantine.Google Scholar
Bloom, B. S. (Ed.). (1985b). Developing talent in young people. New York: Ballantine.Google Scholar
Bransford, J. D., & Schwartz, D. L. (2009). It takes expertise to make expertise. In Ericsson, K. A. (Ed.), Development of professional expertise: Toward measurement of expert performance and design of optimal learning environments (pp. 432448). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.Google Scholar
Brehmer, B. (1980). In one word: Not from experience. Acta Psychologica, 45, 223241.Google Scholar
Bunderson, J. S., & Sutcliffe, K. M. (2003). Management team learning orientation and business unit performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 552560.Google Scholar
Day, D. V., Harrison, M. M., & Halpin, S. M. (2009). An integrative approach to leader development: Connecting adult development, identity, and expertise. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Einhorn, H. J., & Hogarth, R. M. (1978). Confidence in judgment: Persistence of the illusion of validity. Psychological Review, 85, 395416.Google Scholar
Einhorn, H. J., & Hogarth, R. M. (1981). Behavioral decision theory: Processes of judgment and choice. Annual Review of Psychology, 32, 5388.Google Scholar
Ericsson, K. A. (2009). Enhancing the development of professional performance: Implications from the study of deliberate practice. In Ericsson, K. A. (Ed.), Development of professional expertise: Toward measurement of expert performance and design of optimal learning (pp. 405431). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.Google Scholar
Ericsson, K. A., & Charness, N. (1994). Expert performance: Its structure and acquisition. American Psychologist, 49, 725747.Google Scholar
Ericsson, K. A., Charness, N., Feltovich, P. J., & Hoffman , R. R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge handbook of expertise and expert performance. New York: Cambridge University.Google Scholar
Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review, 100, 363406.Google Scholar
Ericsson, K. A., & Lehmann, A. C. (1996). Expert and exceptional performance: Evidence of maximal adaptation to task constraints. Annual Review of Psychology, 47, 273305.10.1146/annurev.psych.47.1.273Google Scholar
Ericsson, K. A., Prietula, M. J., & Cokely, E. T. (2007, July/August). The making of an expert. Harvard Business Review, 85, 114121.Google Scholar
Feldman, J. (1986). On the difficulty of learning from experience. In Sims, H. P. Jr. & Gioia, D. A. (Eds.), The thinking organization: Dynamics of organizational social cognition (pp. 263292). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Google Scholar
Hayward, M. L. A., & Hambrick, D. C. (1997). Explaining premiums paid for large acquisitions: Evidence of CEO hubris. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42, 103127.10.2307/2393810Google Scholar
Kets de Vries, M. F. R. (1993). Leaders, fools, and impostors: Essays on the psychology of leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Google Scholar
Krampe, R. T., & Charness, N. (2006). Aging and expertise. In Ericsson, K. A., Charness, N., Feltovich, P. J., & Hoffman, R. R. (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of expertise and expert performance (pp. 723742). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University .Google Scholar
McCall, M. W. (2010). Recasting leadership development. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 3, 319.Google Scholar
McCall, M. W. Jr., Lombardo, M. M., & Morrison, A. M. (1988). The lessons of experience: How successful executives develop on the job. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.Google Scholar
Tesluk, P. E., & Jacobs, R. R. (1998). Toward an integrated model of work experience. Personnel Psychology, 51, 321355.10.1111/j.1744-6570.1998.tb00728.xGoogle Scholar
Weick, K. E. (1993). The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38, 628652.Google Scholar