Screen LibraryDivergent thinking and creative potential /
Divergent thinking tests are not given more often than any other test of creativity. They are not actually tests of creativity per se but are instead assessments of creative potential. They are based on sound scientific theory and have been improved many times over the years.
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Hampton Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Perspectives on creativity research
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| Summary: |
Divergent thinking tests are not given more often than any other test of creativity. They are not actually tests of creativity per se but are instead assessments of creative potential. They are based on sound scientific theory and have been improved many times over the years. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781612890784 (hardback) : 1612890784 (hardback) 9781612890791 (paperback) 1612890792 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | BF441 |
| CLC: | B842.5 |
| Call Number: | B842.5/D618 |
| Contents: | Measuring divergent thinking with ideational pools -- Divergent thinking for originality and appropriateness -- Time-on-task, intrinsic motivation, and divergent thinking -- Actual ideational behavior -- Experience, knowledge, and divergent thinking -- Divergent thinking and problem generation -- Divergent thinking and the social environment -- Divergent thinking and parental personality -- Divergent thinking, birth order, and age interval -- Creative potential within families of alcoholics -- Accuracy of judgments of originality on three divergent thinking tests -- Children's judgments -- D |