Cognitive Psychology

Mental set

Anchoring bias

Functional fixedness

Availability heuristic

Mental set

Sunk cost fallacy

Anchoring heuristic

Divergent thinking

Classical conditioning

Cognitive biases

The concept of social identity

The bystander effect

Mental set

Divergent thinking

Convergent thinking

Deductive reasoning

It hinders creative solutions by limiting how we use objects.

It promotes new perspectives by changing our understanding of an object's purpose.

It accelerates decision-making processes through repurposing objects on-hand.

It encourages optimal solutions through efficient reuse of familiar objects.

It supports the idea that abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work.

It argues for fixed traits rather than changeable ones.

It proposes an inverse relationship between effort and performance.

It suggests that intelligence level is genetically determined.

Belief perseverance

Choice-supportive bias

Functional fixedness

Decision fatigue

Availability Heuristic

Classical Conditioning Heuristic

Operant Conditioning Heuristic

Sensory Memory Heuristic

Induce varying levels of stress in participants using proven techniques, then measure their performance on established creativity tasks.

Record self-report data from participants about how often they engage in creative activities during times of high versus low stress.

Observe people's behavior under stressful situations while participating in art classes.

Survey individuals about their perceived stress levels and ask them how creative they feel under different amounts of stress.

Mental set.

Insight learning.

Heuristic methods.

Cognitive dissonance.