scholarly journals Object Reorientation and Creative Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-M. Oltețeanu ◽  
L. H. Shu
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Functional Fixedness ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Psychological Measure

Functional fixedness refers to a cognitive bias that prevents people from using objects in new ways and more abstractly from perceiving problems in new ways. Supporting people in overcoming functional fixedness could improve creative problem solving and capacities for creative design. A study was conducted to detect whether a relationship exists between participants' tendency to reorient objects presented as stimuli in an alternative uses test (AUT) and their creativity, also measured using the Wallach Kogan (WaKo) pattern meanings test. The AUT measures creativity as a function of identifying alternative uses for traditional objects. The WaKo pattern meanings test detects the ability to see an abstract pattern as different possible objects or scenes. Also studied is whether Kruglanski's need for closure (NFC) scale, a psychological measure, can predict the ability to incorporate reorientation cues when identifying uses. This study revealed highly significant, high correlations between reorientation and several creativity measures, and a correlation between reorientation and the predictability subscale of the NFC scale. A qualitative exploration of participants' responses reveals further metrics that may be relevant to assessing creativity in the AUT.

scholarly journals Object Reorientation and Creative Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-M. Olteţeanu ◽  
L. H. Shu
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Functional Fixedness ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Psychological Measure

Functional fixedness refers to a cognitive bias that prevents people from using objects in new ways, and more abstractly, perceiving problems in new ways. Supporting people in overcoming functional fixedness could improve creative problem solving and capacities for creative design. A study was conducted to detect whether a relationship exists between participants’ tendency to reorient objects presented as stimuli in an Alternative Uses Test and their creativity, also measured using the Wallach Kogan pattern meanings test. The Alternative Uses Test measures creativity as a function of identifying alternative uses for traditional objects. The Wallach Kogan pattern-meanings test detects the ability to see an abstract pattern as different possible objects or scenes. Also studied is whether Kruglanski’s Need for Closure scale, a psychological measure, can predict the ability to incorporate reorientation cues when identifying uses. This study revealed highly significant, high correlations between reorientation and several creativity measures, and a correlation between reorientation and the predictability subscale of the Need for Closure scale. A qualitative exploration of participants’ responses reveals further metrics that may be relevant to assessing creativity in the Alternative Uses Test.

Effects of Creative and Noncreative Problem-Solving on Anxiety

1983 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. P. R. Riedel ◽  
I. A. Taylor ◽  
W. T. Melnyk
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Problem Solving Task

This study has investigated whether the type of problem in creative performance increases anxiety more than the type of problem in noncreative performance. Subjects were 9 male and 48 female undergraduate students in psychology, selected from a voluntary pool and assigned (3 males, 16 females) nonsystematically to either a divergent creative problem-solving condition, a convergent noncreative problem-solving condition, or a control condition involving a neutral problem-solving condition. The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was administered to each group before and after the experimental conditions. It was hypothesized: (a) that divergent creative problem-solving would increase state anxiety significantly more than both the convergent noncreative problem-solving task and the neutral problem-solving task and (b) that trait anxiety would not be significantly affected by any of the conditions. Only the latter hypothesis was confirmed. Divergent creative problem-solving did not significantly increase state anxiety, perhaps because the employed subjects were students and may have felt more comfortable with divergent problems than the average population.

Thinking Can Cause Forgetting: Memory Dynamics in Creative Problem Solving

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Storm ◽  
Genna Angello ◽  
Elizabeth Ligon Bjork
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Problem
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