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dc.contributor.authorChrysikou, Evangelia G.
dc.contributor.authorMotyka, Katharine
dc.contributor.authorNigro, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorYang, Song-I
dc.contributor.authorThompson-Schill, Sharon L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-14T19:49:39Z
dc.date.available2017-04-14T19:49:39Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-10
dc.identifier.citationChrysikou, Evangelia G. et al. “Functional Fixedness in Creative Thinking Tasks Depends on Stimulus Modality.” Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts 10.4 (2016): 425–435.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/23706
dc.descriptionThis article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.en_US
dc.description.abstractPictorial examples during creative thinking tasks can lead participants to fixate on these examples and reproduce their elements even when yielding suboptimal creative products. Semantic memory research may illuminate the cognitive processes underlying this effect. Here, we examined whether pictures and words differentially influence access to semantic knowledge for object concepts depending on whether the task is close- or open-ended. Participants viewed either names or pictures of everyday objects, or a combination of the two, and generated common, secondary, or ad hoc uses for them. Stimulus modality effects were assessed quantitatively through reaction times and qualitatively through a novel coding system, which classifies creative output on a continuum from top-down-driven to bottom-up-driven responses. Both analyses revealed differences across tasks. Importantly, for ad hoc uses, participants exposed to pictures generated more top-down-driven responses than those exposed to object names. These findings have implications for accounts of functional fixedness in creative thinking, as well as theories of semantic memory for object concepts.en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationen_US
dc.rightsCopyright American Psychological Associationen_US
dc.subjectCreative problem solvingen_US
dc.subjectDivergent thinkingen_US
dc.subjectObject conceptsen_US
dc.subjectVerbal and pictorial stimulien_US
dc.subjectSemantic knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectObject functionen_US
dc.subjectFunctional fixednessen_US
dc.titleFunctional Fixedness in Creative Thinking Tasks Depends on Stimulus Modalityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorChrysikou, Evagnelia G.
kusw.kudepartmentPsychologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/aca0000050en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscripten_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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