This experimental study was set up to examine if experts’ domain-related knowledge induces fixation effect on creative problem solving, and explore the role of an incubation period in creative problem solving. Three hypotheses were put forward and tested. The first one proposed that experts’ automatically activated domain-related knowledge fixates their minds when solving creative problems containing irrelevant domain-related cues and inhibits their performance. The second one stated that an incubation period helps to increase sensitivity to relevant concepts, whereas the third one suggested that an incubation period helps to suppress sensitivity to irrelevant concepts…
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1 Problem Solving
2.1.1 The nature of problem
2.1.2 Problem solving models
2.1.3 The fixation effect on problem solving
2.2 Creative Thinking Process and Problem Solving
2.2.1 Mednick’s theory on creative thinking process
2.2.2 Wallas’s four stages of creative thinking process
2.3 Expertise
2.3.1 The nature of expertise
2.3.2 The effect of expertise on problem solving
3. Problems of the Study and Derivation of Hypotheses
4. Research Design
4.1 Participants
4.2 Tasks
4.3 Procedures
5. Results
5.1 Participants’ Degree of Familiarity with GO-relatedTerms
5.2 Performance on RATs: Comparison Groups
5.3 Performance on RATs : Verification of Hypothesis 1
5.3.1 The number of correct responses
5.3.2 The length of response time
5.4 Performance on LDTs
5.4.1 Performance on LDTs: Verification of Hypothesis 2
5.4.2 Performance on LDTs: Verification of Hypothesis 3
6. Discussion
6.1 The effect of expertise on creative problem solving
6.2 The role of an incubation period in creative problem solving……
6.3 Methodological limitations of this study
6.4 Conclusions
References
Author: Sio, Ut Na
Source: City University of Hong Kong
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