'Escape rooms' are games in which players have to interpret clues and solve puzzles to move through, or 'escape' from, a series of rooms. You decide to go to one with some friends. Your team is unable to complete the last puzzle and 'give up', leaving the game without finding out the solution. Later that night, without intending to think about the puzzle, a possible solution occurs to you. What could explain your behaviour?
A)belief bias
B)surface structure
C)incubation
D)displacement
E)deep structure

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Incubation refers to the process where an idea or a solution to a problem occurs to someone after they have taken a break from consciously thinking about the problem. This can explain why a solution to the escape room puzzle came to mind later, without actively trying to solve it at that moment.

'Escape Rooms' Are Games in Which Players Have to Interpret