知识基础对大学生创新思维的影响

Research on the Role of Knowledge Base in University Students' Creative Thinking

本研究通过两个实验分别探讨领域一般知识和领域特殊知识对大学生创新思维的影响。实验一以英语词汇量作为一般领域的知识基础,以看图英文作文作为创新任务。研究结果显示:英文词汇量对大学生英文作文的创新水平有显著影响;词汇量越多的学生,写作的创新水平越高,这种趋势在创新的新颖性和适宜性两个维度均有反映。实验二以心理学专业大学生和研究生的心理学知识、心理学学习年限(年级)作为具体领域的知识基础,以心理学研究方案的设计为创新任务。研究结果显示:以心理学测验分数为指标的知识基础,对创新思维的新颖性和适宜性均无显著影响;以心理学修业年限为指标的知识基础,与创新思维显著关联;随着心理学修业年限的增加,被试设计研究方案的新颖性和适宜性水平都会提高,这在较高难度任务上的反映更加充分。

Based on two experiments,this research investigates the role of knowledge base in University students' creative thinking. Experiment 1 uses the amount of English vocabulary to represent the general knowledge base and English writing as the creative task. Research findings show that the amount of English vocabulary has significant impact on the creativity in English writing. The larger English vocabulary the students have,the more creative their writings are. The amount of English vocabulary contributes to both novelty and appropriateness in English writings. Experiment 2 employs the test scores of some psychology subjects as well as the years of studying psychology to represent the domain- specific knowledge base,and the psychological research design as the creative tasks. The findings indicate that when the test scores of psychology subject is used as the indicator of knowledge base,it is not significantly correlated with the creativity in research design.However,as the indicator of knowledge base,the years of studying psychology has significant positive effects on both the novelty and appropriateness of the task performance. And these effects are found bigger in the more difficult design tasks.