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What is the relationship between incubation and insight?
Student Name: Gloria Kim Incubation, one of the four stages of creativity, is a process of unconsciously recombining thoughts that were stimulated through conscious work at some point in time. It creates solutions or novel ideas at another point. It is the unconscious processing of thoughts that may become validated as an insight.

Insight is a sudden appearance of a solution or a transition that have major impact on the conception of a problem. For example, if you leave a difficult problem for a period of time, the difficulty will evaporate when you return to it due to the incubation process; and you might have insight on how to solve the problem.

So, if you're experiencing a mental block while solving a problem or trying to think of what to write, then rest and give some time for the unconscious process of incubation and you will have insight.

Citations:

"Incubation (psychology)." //Wikipedia //. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 04 Feb. 2015.

Dean, Jeremy. "The Incubation Effect: How to Break Through a Mental Block." //PsyBlog RSS //. N.p., 25 July 2015. Web. 04 Feb. 2015.

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http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/07/the-incubation-effect-how-to-break-through-a-mental-block.php

Comment: Hee Ra Gloria, that was straight to the point. In the process of incubation (the unconscious brain activity), inspirations and ideas—insights—pop into our mind that allows us to solve a problem without strategy and planning. Metaphorically, we could say incubation is the underlying machinery that produces results in unexpected neural impulses with insights (ideas) that can be associated to a problem we are trying to solve.

Myers, David G. //Psychology//. 8th ed. New York: Worth, 2007. Print.