The Use of Environmental Clues During Incubation

Dodds, Rebecca A.; Smith, Steven M.; Ward, Thomas B.

doi:10.1207/s15326934crj1434_1

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“…A set of experiments similar to the present ones was reported by Dodds et al (2002). In that study participants had two attempts at solving the same set of RAT problems, the two attempts separated by an intervening (incubation) period, during which hints were sometimes inserted.…”

Section: Incidental Cluesmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…In both cases, the focus is upon associative processes among verbal stimuli, the focus of interest in the present study and others (e.g., Haarmann, George, Smaliy, & Dien, 2012;Storm & Koppel, 2012). Because solutions to RAT problems are susceptible to competitive interference effects, it has been possible to block or interfere with RAT problem solving performance by priming inappropriate (nonsolution) associates, resulting in fixation effects (e.g., Dodds, Smith, & Ward, 2002;Kohn & Smith, 2009;Smith & Blankenship, 1991;Vul & Pashler, 2007). In the present set of experiments, we again took advantage of the verbal and associative nature of the RAT problems to examine the effects of hints in the form of semantic associates of solution words on impasse resolution in RAT problem solving; does spreading activation from such hints cause incubation effects?…”

Section: Remote Associates Test Problems and Studies Of Creative Cognmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Given that Dodds et al (2002) failed to find a benefit of semantically related hints on problem resolution, it is difficult to interpret this noneffect, because Dodds et al also failed to find a benefit of solution priming when participants were not alerted to watch for hints. Moss et al (2007Moss et al ( , 2011 have since demonstrated repeated findings of solution priming without such alerting instructions when a task requiring greater semantic processing (i.e., a lexical decision task) was employed to prime solutions.…”

Section: Incidental Cluesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the present experiments, we tested the spreading activation theory of incubation in RAT problem solving, using methods similar to those of Dodds et al (2002) and Moss et al (2007Moss et al ( , 2011. As in the Dodds et al study, we tested effects of solutions as hints and related words as hints to see the effects of such stimuli on the resolution of initially unsolved RAT problems.…”

Section: The Present Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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: Incidental Cluesmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Remote Associates Test Problems and Studies Of Creative Cognmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Incidental Cluesmentioning

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Section: The Present Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…While Browne and Cruse (1988) have reported some effect of choosing relaxing (over other forms of) activity during incubation, several other studies have suggested that activity choice during incubation makes little difference (e.g., Dodds, Ward, and Smith 2003;Olton and Johnson 1976).…”

Section: Cultivation Stage Of Virtuous Insightmentioning

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Virtuous Insightfulness

Carter¹

2016

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Insight often strikes us blind; when we aren't expecting it, we suddenly see a connection that previously eluded us – a kind of Aha! experience. People with a propensity to such experiences are regarded as insightful, and insightfulness is a paradigmatic intellectual virtue. What's not clear, however, is just what it is in virtue of which being such that these experiences tend to happen to one renders one intellectually virtuous. This paper draws from both virtue epistemology as well as empirical work on the psychology of problem solving and creativity to make some inroads in accounting for insightfulness as an intellectual virtue. Important to the view advanced is that virtuously insightful individuals manifest certain skills which both cultivate insight experiences (even if not by directly bringing them about) and enable such individuals to move in an epistemically responsible way from insight experience to epistemic endorsement.

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Serendipity in the Theater: Maude Adams as James M. Barrie's American Muse

Chumaceiro¹

2003

Journal of Creative Behavior

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A special niche in theatre history is addressed to begin to fill a void in the contemporary creativity literature. The present essay focuses on Maude Adams and James M. Barrie in an attempt to demonstrate that, serendipitously, Adams initially impacted Barrie's creative process, and thereafter became his platonic source of inspiration for the plays he created for her, meriting the belated title of muse. Set change theory is underscored as a plausible cognitive explanation for Barrie's illumination. The psychoanalytic theory of transference is proposed as an underlying mechanism for facilitating the change of mental set during the incubation stage. A brief discussion on a selective theoretical integration from the fields of cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience is followed by conclusions.

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The Use of Environmental Clues During Incubation

Cited by 61 publications

References 12 publications

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Virtuous Insightfulness

Serendipity in the Theater: Maude Adams as James M. Barrie's American Muse

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