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ERIC Number: EJ1209202
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Mar
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
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Strategy Induction Enhances Creativity in Figural Divergent Thinking
Forthmann, Boris; Wilken, Andrea; Doebler, Philipp; Holling, Heinz
Journal of Creative Behavior, v53 n1 p18-29 Mar 2019
Instructional effects in creative-thinking tasks are important to understand in order to promote creative performance of individuals. In divergent-thinking tasks, for example, instructional and strategic enhancement effects have been extensively studied for verbal tasks. However, while studies on instructional enhancement effects on creative drawing tasks exist, it is surprising that strategy enhancement in figural divergent thinking is still underresearched. In this study, we used a strategy manipulation approach to reassess the role of executive strategy implementation and the moderating role of an indicator of fluid intelligence, figural analogical reasoning, in two types of figural divergent-thinking tasks (abstract vs. concrete). The sample comprised N = 75 high-school students. Importantly, we found strategic enhancement effects by combining strategy instructions with a prompt to "be creative." This combined instruction was contrasted with a standard instruction, and main effects were found for overall, concrete, and abstract creativity. Moreover, we found in a regression analysis a main effect for figural analogical reasoning on overall creativity and creativity for only the concrete object tasks. An expected interaction effect of instruction and figural analogical reasoning was not found. As another addition, the role of current motivation in figural divergent thinking was explored.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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