Creativity and memory: : Effects of an episodic-specificity induction on divergent thinking

• Autores: Kevin P. Madore, Donna Rose Addis, Daniel L. Schacter
• Localización: Psychological Science, ISSN-e 1467-9280, Vol. 26, Nº. 9, 2015, págs. 1461-1468
• Idioma: inglés
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  • People produce more episodic details when imagining future events and solving means-end problems after receiving an episodic-specificity induction—brief training in recollecting details of a recent event—than after receiving a control induction not focused on episodic retrieval. Here we show for the first time that an episodic-specificity induction also enhances divergent creative thinking. In Experiment 1, participants exhibited a selective boost on a divergent-thinking task (generating unusual uses of common objects) after a specificity induction compared with a control induction; by contrast, performance following the two inductions was similar on an object association task thought to involve little divergent thinking. In Experiment 2, we replicated the specificity-induction effect on divergent thinking using a different control induction, and also found that participants performed similarly on a convergent-thinking task following the two inductions. These experiments provide novel evidence that episodic memory is involved in divergent creative thinking