Intuition in the context of discovery

Bowers, Kenneth S.; Regehr, Glenn; Balthazard, Claude; Parker, Kevin C. H.

doi:10.1016/0010-0285(90)90004-n

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“…The work of Yaniv and Meyer (1987) and Bowers et al (1990;1995) is consistent with the idea that activation spreads passively from incidentally encountered stimuli to semantic associates of those stimuli (see also Collier & Beeman, 2012). Yaniv and Meyer's (1987) theory predicts that simply reading a hint that is semantically related to a RAT solution word should increase the likelihood of accessing that solution.…”

Section: Rat Problem Wordssupporting

confidence: 62%

“…Bowers, Regehr, Balthazard and Parker (1990) measured what they referred to as intuitive guiding, the perception of a pattern or schema (referred to as coherence) that guides hunches during problem solving, which might lead a problem solver towards correct solutions. Perception of coherence is supposedly based on unconscious activation that accrues at semantic representations of solutions.…”

Section: Incubation and Sub-threshold Activationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Smith¹,

Sifonis²,

Angello³

2012

The Journal of Problem Solving

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Abstract:Does spreading activation from incidentally encountered hints cause incubation effects? We used Remote Associates Test (RAT) problems to examine effects of incidental clues on impasse resolution. When solution words were seen incidentally 3-sec before initially unsolved problems were retested, more problems were resolved (Experiment 1). When strong semantic associates of solutions were used as incidental clues, however, it did not improve resolution (Experiments 2 and 4). The semantic associates we used as incidental clues primed our RAT solution words in a lexical decision task, but they did not facilitate impasse resolution unless participants were explicitly instructed to use the associates as hints to the retested problems (Experiment 4). The results do not support the theory that spreading activation is a sufficient cause of incubation effects, and suggest that serendipitously encountered clues (i.e., words that are semantically related to RAT solutions) have no automatic benefit on impasse resolution in RAT problem solving.

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Section: Rat Problem Wordssupporting

confidence: 62%

Section: Incubation and Sub-threshold Activationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Smith¹,

Sifonis²,

Angello³

2012

The Journal of Problem Solving

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“…Data We used 212 RAT items of Bowers et al [2] and Mednick & Mednick [11], divided to a training set of 140 items and a test set of 72 items. As a corpus, we use Google 2-grams [12].…”

Section: Solving the Remote Associates Test Of Creativitymentioning

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On Creative Uses of Word Associations

Toivonen

Gross

Toivanen

et al. 2013

Synergies of Soft Computing and Statistics for Intelligent Data Analysis

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The ability to associate concepts is an important factor of creativity. We investigate the power of simple word co-occurrence analysis in tasks requiring verbal creativity. We first consider the Remote Associates Test, a psychometric measure of creativity. It turns out to be very easy for computers with access to statistics from a large corpus. Next, we address generation of poetry, an act with much more complex creative aspects. We outline methods that can produce surprisingly good poems based on existing linguistic corpora but otherwise minimal amounts of knowledge about language or poetry. The success of these simple methods suggests that corpus-based approaches can be powerful tools for computational support of creativity.

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“…Os estudos sobre inspiração e intuição, dois mecanismos correlatos da criatividade, mostram que estes ocorrem largamente sem intervenção de condicionantes exteriores (Bowers, Regehr, Balthazard, & Parker, 1990;Claxton, 1998). O próprio comportamento improvisado (Cunha, 2002) O papel sancionador do contexto na avaliação da produção criativa (visto e.g.…”

Section: Regresso àS Origens Da Criatividadeunclassified

Regresso às Origens: A Importância do Indivíduo na Criatividade nas Organizações

2016

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Resumo O objetivo deste texto é realçar o papel do indivíduo na criatividade nas organizações. Esse papel tem sido estranhamente remetido para um plano secundário, à medida que as modernas visões da criatividade a definem, sobretudo, com relação ao contexto em que ocorre. De fato, na perspectiva atual, a criatividade não pode ser entendida sem se considerarem os contextos funcional, relacional e organizacional nos quais está inserido o trabalhador. Tais são as considerações da maior parte dos autores que escreve sobre o tópico, como sejam Amabile (1996), Csikszentmihalyi (1996), ou, mais recentemente, Glăveanu (2010a, 2010b). Essa corrente dominante, com origem no interacionismo psico-social, tem ainda influenciado o desenvolvimento teórico de outros conceitos em psicologia, sociologia, e, na sequência, nas ciências sociais e humanas, e na gestão. Essa supremacia no que concerne a criatividade, tem conduzido os autores a olvidar o papel do indivíduo no processo e no resultado criativos, chegando a retirar-lhe a responsabilidade e o protagonismo pela geração e produção de ideias. Desse modo, no presente texto, recuperam-se os argumentos em favor da centralidade da pessoa na criatividade, defendendo-se que esta tem uma existência isolada de influências externas, e que, como tal, devem relembrar-se as bases individuais da criatividade.

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Intuition in the context of discovery

Cited by 551 publications

References 19 publications

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

On Creative Uses of Word Associations

Regresso às Origens: A Importância do Indivíduo na Criatividade nas Organizações

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