مهارت های تفکر و خلاقیت مدل سازی بر تفکر واگرا و خلاقیت هنری تأثیر می گذارد

Despite widespread evidence of modeling effects across a wide range of human behaviors, empirical support for the role of modeling on creativity has been mixed and limited. In this study, 138 Chinese middle school students were separated into two groups, with one completing divergent thinking (DT) tasks and the other completing artistic creativity tasks. Half of each group were exposed to highly creative models beforehand, and half were exposed to no models. Results provide evidence of significant and large modeling effects on both DT and artistic creativity, although post hoc analyses suggest that the DT effects are largely restricted to verbal DT tasks.

Most human behaviors are learned by observation through modeling (Bandura, 1986). Modeling has drawn many psychologists’ attention over the decades, including as a social factor important for creative behavior (Amabile, 1983 and Kaufman et al., 2011). Social learning theory (Bandura, 1986) posits that modeling can provide cognitive and behavioral tools for innovation. According to this theory, individuals, by identifying relevant features and grasping underling rules, are more likely to perform a creative behavior after a visual demonstration of the behavior. Sometimes the demonstration can be unintentional, with the observed behavior of others affecting creative performance even when those others are unaware that they are a source of influence (Amabile, 1983). It is difficult to imagine a highly creative individual who is completely isolated from other creative people, or, more broadly speaking, isolated from other creative behaviors or a creative environment. Therefore, from a social-cognitive perspective, creativity as an ability can been viewed as a set of relations that are actualized through dynamic transactions among individuals, environments, and social cultural relations (Glăveanu, 2011a, Glăveanu, 2011b, McWilliams and Plucker, 2014, Plucker and Barab, 2005 and Plucker et al., 2004).