The purpose of this study is to develop HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Lab–based practicum guide that improves pre-service physics teachers’ creative thinking skills. The research method used 3D-1I model (Define, Design, Develop and Implementation). The subjects of this study are 40 students of Physics Education Program UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. The results showed that the HOT Lab-based prac...

Creativity is a highly sought-after skill. Prescriptive advice for inspiring creativity abounds in the form of metaphors: People are encouraged to "think outside the box", to consider a problem "on one hand, then on the other hand", and to "put two and two together" to achieve creative breakthroughs. These metaphors suggest a connection between concrete bodily experiences and creative cognition...

A person’s chances of being affected may be influenced by many different factors, known and unknown, which may interact together in complex ways. None of these ‘risk factors’ may be enough in itself to cause the disease. For example, not everyone who smokes develops heart disease and not everyone with heart disease has been a smoker. However, smoking is still a strong risk factor for heart dise...

Whereas past research has focused on the downsides of task switching, the present research uncovers a potential upside: increased creativity. In two experiments, we show that task switching can enhance two principal forms of creativity—divergent thinking (Study 1) and convergent thinking (Study 2)—in part because temporarily setting a task aside reduces cognitive fixation. Participants who cont...