This article discusses the potential role of contingency adduction in creative behavior. Some have characterized creativity as the study of generativity. Generativity is the investigation of procedures that result in the occurrence of untrained, often composite, patterns from earlier trained components. An increasing number of applied programs are attempting to apply generative procedures in their design. Headsprout Early Reading®, for example, explicitly employed generative procedures to teach reading. There remains a lack of understanding about the role contingency adduction plays in the generative process. Contingency adduction is defined when patterns shaped under one context are recruited by contingencies in another context for which the pattern was not originally shaped. Adduced patterns may be new sequences of repertoires, the combination of repertoires, or the repertoire may acquire a new function. The moment of reinforcement of these new patterns from previously established patterns marks the moment of adduction. Thus, procedures that make such selection more likely may be fundamental to encourage what might be called creative behavior. Examples and nonexamples of contingency adduction involving both verbal and nonverbal procedures in both animals and humans will be described, and their implications noted.

本文讨论了意外加成在创造性行为中的潜在作用。有些人将创造力定为对生殖力的研究。生成是对过程的调查，这些过程会导致较早训练的组件出现未经训练的，通常是合成的模式。越来越多的应用程序正在尝试在其设计中应用生成程序。Headsprout早期阅读例如，®明确采用生成程序来教授阅读。对于意外加成在生成过程中所扮演的角色仍然缺乏了解。当在一种情况下塑造的模式在另一种情况下最初未被塑造的情况下，由偶然性征募时，定义了意外加成。附加模式可以是新的曲目序列，曲目的组合，或者曲目可以获取新功能。从先前建立的模式中增强这些新模式的时刻标志着内收的时刻。因此，使这种选择更有可能的程序可能是鼓励所谓的创造行为的基础。