The role of incubation in creative problem solving when controlling for artistic inclination

• Main Author: Erna Sólrún Haraldsdóttir 1992-
• Other Authors: Háskólinn í Reykjavík
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Sálfræði; Sköpunargáfa; Hugmyndir; Creative thinking; Problem solving; Psychology; Reykjavík
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/25656

The main focus of this study was to assess incubation effects on creative problem solving before and after artistic inclination was controlled for. Participants were 56 students from Reykjavík University, 14 men and 42 women, age 18 to 38. Three tasks were administered; the Guilford’s Unusual Uses Task, followed by a distraction task for half of the participants to assess incubation effects and finally a creativity questionnaire. It was hypothesized that incubation has an effect on creative problem solving such that those who receive a distraction task (incubation present) will score higher on creative problem solving than those who do not (incubation absent). It is further hypothesized that artistic inclination is positively associated with creative problem solving and that when controlling for artistic inclination the effects of incubation on the outcome may vanish. The findings of the study revealed that the distraction task (incubation present) had no significant effect on creative problem solving before and after artistic inclination was controlled for. However, artistic inclination was positively associated with creative problem solving. Key words: creative problem solving, incubation effects, artistic inclination Megináhersla þessarar rannsóknar var að athuga hvort þeir sem eru listhneigðari græði meira á hugmyndagerjun í skapandi vandamálalausnum í samanburði við þá sem eru minna listhneigðari. Þátttakendur voru 56 nemendur frá Háskólanum í Reykjavík, 14 karlar og 42 konur, á aldrinum 18 til 38. Þrjú próf voru lögð fyrir; Guilford‘s Unusual Uses Task ásamt truflun með öðru verkefni fyrir helming þátttakenda til að meta áhrif hugmyndagerjun og síðast var spurningalisti sem mat listhneigð lagður fyrir. Sú tilgáta var sett fram að þeir þátttakendur sem fá truflunar verkefni (hugmyndagerjun til staðar) muni ganga betur á skapandi vandamálalausnum en þeir sem fá ekki truflunar verkefni (hugmyndagerjun ekki til staðar). Seinni tilgátan var sú að fylgni væri á milli listhneigðar og skapandi vandamálalausna og ...