ABSTRACT
Preliminary investigations suggest that different creative mechanisms may have been at work between the Cute Numbers and Birthday Cake problems. Pearson product-moment correlations, discussed in Chapter 6, point to a higher visual-spatial processing component in the Cute Numbers problem and an exact arithmetic component in the Birthday Cake problem.
This chapter continues step 1 of Stage 4 of the research process. It details testing of the final outer and inner model structures of the Birthday Cake path model of creative problem solving, consistent with the analytical processes—the jackknife method in PLSPATH for testing significance (Sellin, 1990)—to analyze the Cute Numbers model results. Analyses of the Cute Numbers path model of creative problem solving, presented in the previous chapter, revealed the presence of influential paths from each of the Person, Process and Environment dimensions of creativity as critical to successful novel problem solving (i.e. the Product). A key focus in this chapter is on determining whether the two non-cognitive elements (the free-flowing approach to reasoning and the feeling approach to reasoning) shown to contribute to creatively reaching a successful solution to the Cute Numbers problem were also needed to successfully solve the Birthday Cake problem.
