Effects of Unconscious Processing on Creativity Problems Solving

To explore the effects of unconscious processing on creativity problems solving,we selected remote associates test(RAT) and logogriph of Chinese characters as the materials and adopted the revised masked prime paradigm in the study.The results showed that:1) the accuracy rate was not significant between priming and nopriming groups in both materials.2) As high difficult problems,the accuracy rate was significantly higher for priming group than no-priming group in both materials.But for the low difficult problems,the accuracy rate of RAT for the priming groups was significantly lower than no-priming group,though it was not significant in the logogriph of Chinese characters.3) For the creativity problems,with the reduction of the difficulty,the facilitation effect of priming process will gradually weaken,and there will be inhibition for the low difficulty problems.These results showed that a clear dissociable contribution of unconscious priming on creativity problems solving,and this facilitation effect will appear only if the high difficult creativity problems are solved.