TY - GEN
T1 - Combining concept maps to catalyze creativity
AU - Yu, Lixiu
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2011 ACM.
PY - 2011/11/3
Y1 - 2011/11/3
N2 - Combining concept maps AIDS creative problem solving. In two studies, participants were presented with a story describing a problem and its solution. They were then asked to read an analogous problem and provide a solution. In order to facilitate transfer from the first story to the second, concept maps of the stories were elicited and participants instructed to combine them. The results show that participants were more likely to solve the problem when they produced and combined concept maps, as compared to a condition in which concept maps were used without combination, and compared to a condition in which no maps were used, but instead summaries were created and combined.
AB - Combining concept maps AIDS creative problem solving. In two studies, participants were presented with a story describing a problem and its solution. They were then asked to read an analogous problem and provide a solution. In order to facilitate transfer from the first story to the second, concept maps of the stories were elicited and participants instructed to combine them. The results show that participants were more likely to solve the problem when they produced and combined concept maps, as compared to a condition in which concept maps were used without combination, and compared to a condition in which no maps were used, but instead summaries were created and combined.
KW - Analogy
KW - Combination
KW - Concept map
KW - Creativity
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U2 - 10.1145/2069618.2069623
DO - 10.1145/2069618.2069623
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949050798
T3 - C and C 2011 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition
SP - 13
EP - 20
BT - C and C 2011 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition
T2 - 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C and C 2011
Y2 - 3 November 2011 through 6 November 2011
ER -