The Impact Of Nonconscious Goal Conflicts On Thinking Set

Nowadays, as the themes of our times are peace and development, the substance of international competition is the contest of creativity. So, it is no doubt that how to reduce or break the thinking set to develop creative thinking becomes an important topic. Overview the literatures related the cognitive mechanism of thinking set, we can find out that most of them try to use the attention direction to explain the process of set forming and breaking. And recently, some researchers testify the nonconscious goal conflicts can modulates how humans think, reason, and process information, so it also can increase the possibility that humans think from other perspectives with experiment.Thus, it’s necessary to explore whether nonconscious goal conflicts can impact on thinking set. So this study is based on the conclusions of the evolution, concept connotation, cognitive mechanism, research method and so on about nonconscious goal conflicts and thinking set, explores the impact of nonconscious goal conflicts on thinking set with experimental method, documentary method and questionnaire method., and we hope to develop a new way to reduce thinking set that can increase creative thinking.The main results and conclusions of tjis study are as follow:1. The thinking set in nonconscious goal conflicts condition is significant less than that in control condition(F=7.240,p=0.009). So, the conclusion is that, nonconscious goal conflicts can and indeed impact on thinking set,the active of nonconscious goal conflicts can reduce thinking set significantly.2. The thinking set in nonconscious goal conflicts condition is significant less than that in control condition and nonconscious semantic conflicts condition(F=5.053,P=0.008). We can conclude that the reduce of thinking set is just the consequence of nonconscious goal conflicts, not because of the nonconscious semantic conflicts.3. The thinking set in nonconscious goal conflicts condition is significant less than that in control condition and nonconscious unrelated goals condition(F=6.509,P=0.002). We can conclude that only nonconscious goal conflicts can lead to the reduce of thinking set, the thinking set can not be reduce if active two unrelated goals.4. The thinking set in nonconscious goal conflicts condition is significant less than that in control condition and nonconscious achievement goal pursuit condition(F=5.146,P=0.008). We can conclude that active the goal pursuit can not reduce the thinking set, only nonconscious goal conflicts can reduce the thinking set.5. With an another indicator of nonconscious goal conflicts, namely decision time, we find the average decision time in nonconscious goal conflicts condition is much longer than that in control condition and nonconscious achievement goal pursuit condition(F=18.289,P=0.000). This proves the nonconscious goal conflicts indeed be active by our experiment manipulation,what’s more, the correlation of decision time and thinking set was negative, suggesting that longer response times were associated with a smaller thinking set.