Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (6): 569-575.

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Effects of Unconscious Processing on Creativity Problems Solving

CHEN Qun-lin1, LUO Jun-long3, JIANG Jun1, WEI Dong-tao1, ZHANG Qing-lin1,2   

  1. 1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715;
    2. Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715;
    3. Education College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234
  • Online:2012-11-15 Published:2012-11-15

Abstract: To explore the effects of unconscious processing on creativity problems solving,we selected remote associates test(RAT)and logogriph of Chinese characters as the materials and adopted the revised masked prime paradigm in the study.The results showed that:1)the accuracy rate was not significant between priming and no-priming groups in both materials.2)As high difficult problems,the accuracy rate was significantly higher for priming group than no-priming group in both materials.But for the low difficult problems,the accuracy rate of RAT for the priming groups was significantly lower than no-priming group,though it was not significant in the logogriph of Chinese characters.3)For the creativity problems,with the reduction of the difficulty,the facilitation effect of priming process will gradually weaken,and there will be inhibition for the low difficulty problems.These results showed that a clear dissociable contribution of unconscious priming on creativity problems solving,and this facilitation effect will appear only if the high difficult creativity problems are solved.

Key words: unconscious processing, creativity, RAT, logogriph

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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