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Development of conflict detection in creative ideas generation [Conference poster at the American Psychological Association's 127th Annual Convention]

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Abstract

The aim of the present study is to examine whether conflict detection (i.e. the ability to detect that an answer is not fully warranted and not creative) is also a critical process to generate new ideas and creative solutions to problems and to what extent it develops during adolescence.
Development of conflict detection in creative ideas generation
J. Desdevises1,2, A. Camarda3, G. Borst1,2,4, M. Cassotti1,2,4
1Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'Education, UMR 8240, Paris, France
2Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
3Centre de gestion scientifique, Mines ParisTech, Paris, France
4Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Introduction
Creativity is defined as the ability to think of something truly new (i.e., original, unexpected), and appropriate (i.e., useful, adaptive concerning task constraints, (Lubart et al., 2003).
When generating creative ideas, adolescents and adults tend to follow “the path of least resistance” and propose solutions that are built on the most common and accessible knowledge within a specific domain,
leading to a cognitive bias : the fixation effect (Cassotti et al., 2016).
Critically, studies in the field of reasoning converged in showing that despite their biased response, adults typically do detect that their answer is not fully warranted and conflicts with logical considerations.
(Bago, & De Neys, 2017)
The aim of the present study is to examine whether conflict detection (i.e. the ability to detect that an answer is not fully warranted and not creative) is also a critical process to generate new ideas and
creative solutions to problems and to what extent it develops during adolescence.
Method Results
PARTICIPANT
45 adolescents (mage=15,2, SD=0.32) and 40 adults (mage=22,32, SD=2,01)
MATERIAL & PROCEDURE
Instructions :
First, participants are asked to propose the first idea that comes to their mind in few seconds.
Secondly, participants are asked to propose as many ideas as possible to the problem during 5 minutes
and for each idea, to evaluate their creativity and classical aspect (1 to 7 points)
No-conflict condition Conflict condition
Egg-task
You are a designer and
you are asked
to
propose as many CLASSIC
solutions as
possible fot the following problem :
«
Ensure that a hen’s egg dropped
from
a height of 10M does not break »
You are a designer and you are asked to
propose as many CREATIVE solutions as
possible fot the following problem :
« Ensure that a hen’s egg dropped from a
height of 10M does not break »
Door
-
task
You are a designer and
you are asked
to
propose as many CLASSIC
solutions as
possible fot the following problem :
« Ensure to enter a room where you
don’t have the key »
You are a designer and you are asked to
propose as many CREATIVE solutions as
possible fot the following problem :
«
Ensure to enter a room where you don’t
have
the key »
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Adolescents Adults
Confidence (on the first idea)
No-conflict
Condition
Conflict
condition
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NS
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Adolescents Adultes
Judgment of creativity (5 min.of
generation)
Fixations
Expansions
Discussion
This study provide evidence that conflict detection is also a critical process in creative problem solving
and that this process develops with age between adolescence and adulthood
Indeed, only adults were able to detect the existence of a conflict, and to evaluate differently their
responses in fixation and in expansion. The adolescents seem too confident in their responses.
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