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====Using verbal ability==== The third and final type of problem requires verbal ability to solve. An example is the [[Remote Associates Test]] (RAT),<ref name= "Nature of insight" /> in which people must think of a word that connects three, seemingly unrelated, words.<ref name=RAT>{{cite journal|last=Mednick|first=Sarnoff|title=The associative basis of the creative process |journal= [[Psychological Review]]| year=1962|volume=69|issue=3|pages=220β232 |doi= 10.1037/h0048850 |pmid= 14472013 |citeseerx= 10.1.1.170.572|s2cid=6702759 }}</ref> RAT are often used in experiments, because they can be solved both with and without insight.<ref name="Kounios & Beeman (2009)">{{cite journal|last1=Kounios|first1=John|last2=Beeman|first2= Mark|title=The Aha! Moment: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight|journal=Current Directions in Psychological Science|date=1 August 2009 |volume= 18 |issue= 4 |pages=210β216|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01638.x|citeseerx=10.1.1.521.6014|s2cid=16905317}}</ref>
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