The Role of Verbalization in Creative Problem Solving

本研究表明，元认知建议可以促进合作中的表征变化，而言语表达他/她的想法会扰乱个人情境中的一些洞察力问题的解决。结果还表明，如果一个人将观察到的动作归因于自己，则观察可能会破坏洞察力问题的解决，但如果一个人将其归因于另一个人，则不会。此外，想法生成实验的结果表明，当一个人能够使用适度多样化的信息时，他/她可以产生更多创造性的想法。

The present study showed that metacognitive suggestions can facilitate representational change during collaboration whereas verbalizing his/her thoughts disrupts some of the insight problem solving in an individual setting. The results also indicated that observation may disrupt insight problem solving if one attributes the observed moves to oneself, but not if one attributes them to another person. In addition, the results of the idea generation experiments showed that one can generate more creative ideas when he/she can use moderately diverse information.