Alternating Incubation Effects in the Generation of Category Exemplars

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Steven M.; Gerkens, David R.; Angello, Genna
Titel	Alternating Incubation Effects in the Generation of Category Exemplars
Quelle	In: Journal of Creative Behavior, 51 (2017) 2, S.95-106 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0175
DOI	10.1002/jocb.88
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Attention; Experiments; Taxonomy; Task Analysis; Concept Formation; Memory; Cues; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Aufmerksamkeit; Erprobung; Taxonomie; Aufgabenanalyse; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Gedächtnis; Stichwort; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Four experiments tested the forgetting fixation hypothesis of incubation effects, comparing continuous vs. alternating generation of exemplars from three different types of categories. In two experiments, participants who listed as many members as possible from two different categories produced more responses, and more novel responses, when they alternated back and forth between the two categories, as compared to continuous uninterrupted listing from each of the two categories. This incubation effect was not found in Experiment 1, when participants were given taxonomic categories ("birds" and "clothing") for the generation task, but was found in Experiment 2 with sense impression categories ("cold things" and "heavy things"), and in Experiment 3 with "ad hoc" categories ("equipment you take camping" and "fattening foods"). A similar incubation effect was observed in Experiment 4 when a non-verbal task was given between category generation tasks, but only for flexibly defined categories. The results suggest that forgetting from one alternating listing period to the next in the form of altering category cue representations was consistent with the observed incubation effects. These "alternating incubation" effects have implications for understanding cognitive processes that underlie creative cognition. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01