Intuitive Tip of the Tongue Judgments Predict Subsequent Problem Solving One Day Later

Collier, Azurii Kanikaa; Beeman, Mark

doi:10.7771/1932-6246.1130

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“…The work of Yaniv and Meyer (1987) and Bowers et al (1990;1995) is consistent with the idea that activation spreads passively from incidentally encountered stimuli to semantic associates of those stimuli (see also Collier & Beeman, 2012). Yaniv and Meyer's (1987) theory predicts that simply reading a hint that is semantically related to a RAT solution word should increase the likelihood of accessing that solution.…”

Section: Rat Problem Wordssupporting

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Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Smith¹,

Sifonis²,

Angello³

2012

The Journal of Problem Solving

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Abstract:Does spreading activation from incidentally encountered hints cause incubation effects? We used Remote Associates Test (RAT) problems to examine effects of incidental clues on impasse resolution. When solution words were seen incidentally 3-sec before initially unsolved problems were retested, more problems were resolved (Experiment 1). When strong semantic associates of solutions were used as incidental clues, however, it did not improve resolution (Experiments 2 and 4). The semantic associates we used as incidental clues primed our RAT solution words in a lexical decision task, but they did not facilitate impasse resolution unless participants were explicitly instructed to use the associates as hints to the retested problems (Experiment 4). The results do not support the theory that spreading activation is a sufficient cause of incubation effects, and suggest that serendipitously encountered clues (i.e., words that are semantically related to RAT solutions) have no automatic benefit on impasse resolution in RAT problem solving.

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Section: Rat Problem Wordssupporting

confidence: 63%

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Smith¹,

Sifonis²,

Angello³

2012

The Journal of Problem Solving

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“…Recent work by Collier and Beeman (2012), for example, has shown that unsolved RAT problems can be solved after a delay and especially when problem solvers have an intuitive sense that inaccessible solutions are in mind. According to the forgetting-fixation hypothesis, stopping one's attempt to generate a solution may provide the time or contextual change necessary for the misleading and irrelevant associates to be forgotten (e.g., Smith, 1995;Smith & Blankenship, 1989;1991;Smith, Sifonis, & Angello, 2012).…”

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Testing the Cue Dependence of Problem-Solving-Induced Forgetting

Storm¹,

Koppel²

2012

The Journal of Problem Solving

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Abstract:Thinking and remembering can cause forgetting. In the context of remembering, retrieving one item can cause the forgetting of other items (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994). A similar phenomenon has been observed in the context of creative problem solving-attempting to generate a target associate in the Remote Associates Test (RAT) can cause the forgetting of inappropriate associates (Storm, Angello, & Bjork, 2011). Experiment 1 examined whether this problem-solving-induced forgetting is cue dependent or cue independent by manipulating the cues used at final test. Whereas some participants were tested on the inappropriate associates using the same cues that were used during problem solving, other participants were tested using new, or independent, cues. Problem-solving-induced forgetting was observed in the same-cue condition, but not in the new-cue condition. Experiment 2 replicated the overall absence of problem-solvinginduced forgetting in the new-cue condition and found that individual differences in cue-independent forgetting did not predict problem-solving performance on a separate set of RAT problems.

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The Usual and the Unusual: Solving Remote Associates Test Tasks Using Simple Statistical Natural Language Processing Based on Language Use

Klein

Badía

2014

Journal of Creative Behavior

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In this study we show how complex creative relations can arise from fairly frequent semantic relations observed in everyday language. By doing this, we reflect on some key cognitive aspects of linguistic and general creativity. In our experimentation, we automated the process of solving a battery of Remote Associates Test tasks. By applying Statistical Natural Language Processing techniques to a large web‐based corpus, we perform a frequency and collocation analysis of the test items. Results show that 37% of the 68 tasks were automatically solved, whereas human accuracy reached 43%. Our method outperformed humans in the tasks rated as difficult: 38% and 32%, respectively. Highly relevant is that the novel and adequate relations established in order to solve the RAT were not previously present in the corpus. The frequency based approach pervades all stages of our method: during the divergent stage, highly frequent collocations are listed, while the convergent stage starts by matching each task's triads output, shrinking that list, and finalizing it by choosing the least frequent, therefore more informative and often correct, result. Finally, we discuss the implications of our model in overcoming functional fixedness and understanding cognitive salience in the creative process.

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Intuitive Tip of the Tongue Judgments Predict Subsequent Problem Solving One Day Later

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving

Testing the Cue Dependence of Problem-Solving-Induced Forgetting

The Usual and the Unusual: Solving Remote Associates Test Tasks Using Simple Statistical Natural Language Processing Based on Language Use

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