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Thinking Can Cause Forgetting: Memory Dynamics in Creative Problem Solving
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Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2011-09, Vol.37 (5), p.1287-1293
Ort / Verlag
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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ERIC
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Research on retrieval-induced forgetting has shown that retrieval can cause the forgetting of related or competing items in memory (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994). In the present research, we examined whether an analogous phenomenon occurs in the context of creative problem solving. Using the Remote Associates Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962), we found that attempting to generate a novel common associate to 3 cue words caused the forgetting of other strong associates related to those cue words. This problem-solving-induced forgetting effect occurred even when participants failed to generate a viable solution, increased in magnitude when participants spent additional time problem solving, and was positively correlated with problem-solving success on a separate set of RAT problems. These results implicate a role for forgetting in overcoming fixation in creative problem solving. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.)