The Impact Of Examples On Creativity

Creativity,also known as creativity,refers to the ability of an individual to produce novel and applicable products.It is a complex high-level cognitive ability affected by a variety of factors.The impact of providing examples on creativity is of great significance to both creative research and creative teaching.However,previous studies have shown different results,with some suggesting that providing examples is good for individual creativity and others suggesting that providing examples can hinder creativity.An important cause of the predecessors’ research results controversial may be individual experience influenced by different,individual experience is one of the key factors affecting creativity test result is also the important error,in the case of unequal knowledge that the creative result test is not necessarily a real creative individuals,and it is possible that experience.In addition,previous studies on the effects of examples on creativity have mostly used knowledge-poor domain tasks,while real-life creativity is more knowledge-rich domain tasks.Therefore,by compiling experimental materials of divergent application in the field of scientific and technological invention,this study adopts divergent application tasks in knowledge-rich fields and discusses the influence of examples on creativity based on matching individual experience.Provide basic research evidence for creative intervention ascension.The preliminary experiment measures the individual’s divergent application ability through sorting out,measuring,interviewing,and establishing experimental materials and tasks for divergent application in the field of scientific and technological inventions.Using the classic multi-task and creative achievement questionnaire as calibration criteria,the effectiveness of the divergent application task in the field of scientific and technological invention in measuring individual creativity was tested.The results showed that the individual creativity score obtained from the divergent application task was significantly correlated with the individual creativity score(total score and dimensional score)measured by the traditional one-thing multi-task.Individuals’ total creative score on divergent application tasks was significantly correlated with their creative behavior scores.The results of the preliminary experiment prove that the divergent application of experimental materials can measure the creative potential of individuals from the perspectives of creative thinking and creative behavior.At the same time,the latest cases in the field of scientific and technological inventions are used as experimental materials.Different from common objects in daily life,individuals do not have prior knowledge and experience of the experimental materials,so the knowledge and experience of the subjects can be equally matched.In Experiment 1,we used the scientific and technological invention materials collected in the pre-experiment to explore the impact of examples on creativity.Using two conditions of sample prompt and no sample prompt,explores whether providing examples can promote individual creativity under the condition of matching the same experience.The results showed that the creativity scores of the participants with examples were higher than those of the participants without examples.There was no significant difference in fluency and flexibility between the participants with examples and those without examples.This result shows that the use of divergent applied materials in the field of scientific and technological invention matches individual experience,and the example has a positive effect on individual creativity,but the effect of the example on creativity is not comprehensive.Experiment 2introduced refined instructions to further explore the impact of examples in the field of scientific invention on creativity.Experiment 2 uses the way of changing the instruction to explore how to maximize the creativity of individuals in the case of providing examples.The experiment was divided into three groups.The first group was the example +instruction group,the second group was the example group,and the third group was the no-example group.One-way ANOVA was used to analyze the scores of originality,flexibility and fluency of the answers under the three conditions.The results showed that there were significant differences between the three conditions in the dimension of originality and flexibility.In the dimension of originality,after the comparison,it was found that the score under the condition of examples + instructions was significantly higher than that under the condition of examples,and significantly higher than that under the condition of no examples.In the dimension of flexibility,the score under the condition of example + guidance was significantly higher than that under the condition of example,and the score of originality was significantly higher than that under the condition of no example.This indicates that the use of detailed instructions to prompt the subjects not to be limited to the examples on the premise of providing examples is conducive to stimulating individual creativity.To sum up,(1)The divergent application task in the field of scientific invention can effectively estimate and measure individual creative potential,and can provide experimental materials for the research on individual creative differences in the case that knowledge rich fields match individual knowledge and experience.(2)Under the condition of matching the knowledge and experience of the subjects,providing examples can promote the creativity of individuals.(3)In the case of matching the knowledge and experience of the subjects,providing detailed instructions can further enhance the promotion effect of examples on individual creativity.