ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

The Effect of Episodic Specificity Induction on Children's Creative Performance

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Experimental Psychology

  • Guillermo Tomás Sánchez
    Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center at University of Granada
  • Alejandra Marful
    University of Granada
  • María Teresa Bajo Molina
    Universidad de Granada

Abstract

This experiment studies the effect of episodic specificity induction (procedure to train our episodic memory) on two aspects of children’s creative behaviour (convergent and divergent thinking). Contrary to previous research, our results revealed a negative impact of this procedure on the divergent thinking task.

Memory