Getting to the Novel Ideas: Exploring the Alternative Uses Test of Divergent Thinking
Getting to the Novel Ideas: Exploring the Alternative Uses Test of Divergent Thinking
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获得新颖的想法：探索发散思维的替代用途测试
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10.1115/detc2013-13262
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2013
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Caitlin Dippo
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Barry M. Kudrowitz;Caitlin Dippo
替代用途测试是衡量发散思维的一种方法，要求参与者在固定的时间内列出一个常见物体的非明显用途。在这项研究中，参与者被要求在三分钟内列出回形针的其他用途。从包括工程专业人士和学生在内的 2000 多名参与者中，选出并评估了 293 名参与者。使用响应的频率作为新颖性的衡量标准，发现产生更多响应的参与者有更多的新颖性响应和更高的平均新颖性得分。后来的回答比早期的回答明显更新颖，并且回答的非原创性随着数量的增加而减少。平均而言，参与者会列出 9 个答案，然后才能得出非常新颖的答案。在研究中没有达到 9 个回答的参与者可能很少有高度新颖的回答。如果这个测试映射到现实世界的问题解决，它表明我们想到的第一个想法很可能已经被其他人提出，因此不是原创的。这项研究的结果有助于重构替代用途测试的格式。版权所有 © 2013 by ASME
The Alternative Uses Test is a measure of divergent thinking in which participants are asked to list non-obvious uses for a common object in a fixed amount of time. In this study, participants were asked to list alternative uses for a paperclip in three minutes. From a pool of over 2000 participants including engineering professionals and students, 293 were chosen and evaluated. Using infrequency of responses as a measure of novelty, it was found that participants that produced more responses had more novel responses and a higher average novelty score. Later responses were significantly more novel than early responses and unoriginality of responses decreased with quantity. On average, a participant would list 9 responses before arriving at highly novel responses. Participants that did not reach 9 responses in the study were likely to have few if any highly novel responses.If this test maps to real world problem solving, it suggests that the first ideas we think of are likely to have been suggested already by others and thus not original. The results of this study can help restructure the format of the Alternative Uses Test.Copyright © 2013 by ASME