Author Question: Finke's creating an object experiment had participants create a novel object by combining parts. ... (Read 88 times)

urbanoutfitters · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Finke's creating an object experiment had participants create a novel object by combining parts. Once they created an object, they were given the name of an object category and instructed to interpret their creation as a practical object or device within that category. Finke used the term preinventive forms to describe the

a. object parts.
b. novel objects before a function was described.
c. practical objects within the category.
d. inventions rated high in both practicality and originality.

Question 2

In the movie Apollo 13, astronauts aboard a damaged spacecraft have to build a carbon dioxide filter out of random items that are aboard the ship with them. If they do not, they will all die rapidly of carbon dioxide poisoning. The fact that they are able to do so with the help of experts on Earth is similar to the approach developed by Ronald Finke.

a. convergent thinking
b. creative cognition
c. divergent thinking
d. the means-end analysis