9- What Processes does Creativity Involve?

Question 1

How are creativity and problem solving linked?

Answer 1

Problems may require creative solutions

Question 2

How does creativity help problem solving?

Answer 2

Problems often have many possible solutions, and creativity allows us to explore more options

Question 3

What are Wallas’s 4 stages?

Answer 3

1. Preparation
2. Incubation
3. Illumination
4. Verification

Question 4

What happens in the preparation stage?

Answer 4

Consciously familiarise ourselves with the problem

Question 5

What is the limitation of the preparation stage?

Answer 5

It rarely leads to a solution

Question 6

What happens in the incubation stage?

Answer 6

Problems are ‘set aside’ and we don’t consciously work on them

Question 7

What is the limitation of the illumination stage?

Answer 7

Even if a ‘great idea’ comes to mind, then it must be developed and verified

Question 8

What happens in the verification state?

Answer 8

We consciously work to test and develop solutions

Question 9

What must we do to solve a problem?

Answer 9

Define a problem

Question 10

How do we define a problem?

Answer 10

We set foundations and acquire and gather information to know all the information

Question 11

Why must you put in conscious effort in the preparation stage?

Answer 11

To comprehend what is required and what can be explored

Question 12

What is the aim of the preparation stage?

Answer 12

To acquire and study as many facts about every component involved

Question 13

Why is the preparation stage important for the incubation stage?

Answer 13

Stronger neural connections important for incubation- become stronger by studying facts more

Question 14

What process is in the incubation stage?

Answer 14

Process of consciously taking your focus to a task related to the problem

Question 15

What is required for the incubation stage?

Answer 15

Strong connections between facts and variables of the problem

Question 16

What should the new task in the incubation stage not be?

Answer 16

Demanding or cognitively draining

Question 17

What do you become aware of in the illumination stage?

Answer 17

One or many possible solutions to the problem

Question 18

What may the possible solution we find in the illumination stage be instead of the correct solution?

Answer 18

The development of new ideas ready to be inputted into our mental frameworks

Question 19

What is intimation?

Answer 19

Process that instigates and continues through the moment of illumination

Question 20

How is intimation unlike insight?

Answer 20

Process of discovering a solution is longer than a flash- it begins as small, subtle feelings that must be hooked and fed

Question 21

Why must we be careful with the development of new ideas?

Answer 21

Attempting to implement them too early can result in unsuccessful resolutions as the idea has not fully formed

Question 22

What do we do in the verification stage?

Answer 22

Test the possible solution by taking the idea generated through illumination and applying it to the problem

Question 23

How do we evaluate a solution?

Answer 23

Whether it satisfies all requirements and assess which components are salient

Question 24

What does Wallas emphasise in creative problem solving?

Answer 24

The importance of subconscious and conscious process

Question 25

What are Wallas’s suggestions for boosting creativity based on?

Answer 25

The behavioural approach

Question 26

What is the fatigue reduction hypothesis?

Answer 26

Suggestion that incubation is a cognitive rest period

Question 27

What is the conscious work hypothesis?

Answer 27

We hold the problem in our working memory during incubation

Question 28

What is the forgetting hypothesis?

Answer 28

Incubation leads to overcoming false solutions

Question 29

What is the unconscious work hypothesis?

Answer 29

Incubation means you are solving the problem subconsciously

Question 30

What task did Baird et al use?

Answer 30

A verbal idea generation task- unusual uses task

Question 31

What was the key finding of Baird et al’s research?

Answer 31

Taking the mind to a different cognitively demanding task boosts creativity

Question 32

What is the semantic network?

Answer 32

An associative theory of creativity

Question 33

What does the semantic network theory suggest?

Answer 33

Related concepts are linked in long-term semantic memory

Question 34

What is the result of activating one concept in the semantic network?

Answer 34

It raises activation of connected concepts