Effects of Brainstorming or Short-Term Incubation on Divergent Production in Problem-Solving

Thls study was designed to lnvestigate differences in divergent production performance among students who were involved in a brainstorming sesslon r,rhlle ineubatlng and subJects who only incubated. Effeets of the treatments !\u27Iere assessed by subJect6f responses on a written problem solving inventory. Anal-ysls of variance indicated that the performance of subjects who rrrere tralned in dlvergent productior, i.e., brainsLorming, was greater thal that of subjects who were not tralned ln divergent production. The incubation treatment, however, dld not seem to influence subjectsr divergent production scores significantly. New directions are proposed to study effects of various attributes of incubatlon as compared with certain attrlbutes of creativity