Selective attention moderated the effect of stimulus condition on children’s originality: better selective attention favoured the low stimulus environment, weaker selective attention the high stimulus environment¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i2 medium
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Subclaims¶

q3 i2 The interaction of stimulus condition and selective attention on decorrelated originality was significant with a medium-to-strong effect size. → van Dijk 2020 q3 i? Regions-of-significance analysis showed the low-vs-high advantage was significant only at relatively high selective attention, while the high-vs-low advantage was significant at moderately below-average selective attention. → van Dijk 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

van Dijk 2020¶

van Dijk, M., Blom, E., Kroesbergen, E. H., & Leseman, P. P. M. (2020). The Influence of Situational Cues on Children’s Creativity in an Alternative Uses Task and the Moderating Effect of Selective Attention. Journal of Intelligence, 8(4), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8040037

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ANOVA on decorrelated originality in the same between-subjects experiment (N = 70 analysed minus outliers). The "interaction effect of condition and selective attention on originality was significant" with η2 = 0.11.

"The interaction effect of condition and selective attention on originality was significant with a medium to strong effect size, F(1, 62) = 7.26, p = 0.01, η2 = 0.11."

van Dijk 2020 (2)¶

van Dijk, M., Blom, E., Kroesbergen, E. H., & Leseman, P. P. M. (2020). The Influence of Situational Cues on Children’s Creativity in an Alternative Uses Task and the Moderating Effect of Selective Attention. Journal of Intelligence, 8(4), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8040037

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Regions-of-significance analysis (Bauer and Curran) of the interaction, plotted in Figure 2. The low-vs-high originality advantage was "only significant at a relatively high level of selective attention"; the high-vs-low advantage was significant at moderately below-average selective attention.

"The higher bound of significance of the interaction effect (SA ≥ −1.92) is located beyond one standard deviation above the mean (SA −2.49), indicating that the positive effect of the low vs. high stimulus condition is only significant at a relatively high level of selective attention."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Fluency in the Alternative Uses Task was unaffected by stimulus condition and unrelated to selective attention
• Children produced more original alternative uses (net of fluency and flexibility) in a low stimulus environment than in a high stimulus environment
• Children with better selective attention were more flexible (used more different conceptual categories) in the Alternative Uses Task
• The multivariate effect of stimulus condition and selective attention on the combined creativity measures showed a significant condition × selective attention interaction — related