Divergent thinking

Guilfords Alternative Uses Task

Wallas and Kogan  

Torrance Test of Creative Thinking

 

Convergent thinking

Insight Problems

Remotes Associations Task

 

Artistic assessments

Barron-Welsh Art Scale

 

Self assessment

Khatena-Torrance Creative Perception Inventory

How Do You Think

Things Done on Your Own

The Creativity Behavior Inventory

RIBS

Creative Attitude Survey

Statement of Past Activities

NEO-PI-R 

Gough Personality Scale

 

Other Assessment

Creativity Assessment Packet

Preschool and Kindergarten Interests Descriptors

Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students

 

Creativity Test: Remote Association Task (Mednick, 1962)
(For more information, contact Gayle Dow, Indiana University)

In Mednick's Remote association Task (1962) examinees are present with three words and are asked to come up with the word that associates the other three together.
 
Example

What single word associates these three words together?

Cottage  :  Blue:    Mouse

solution



Scoring

Scoring is 1 point for correct and 0 for incorrect.   

Administration

Anyone can administer the Remote Association Tasks, however it is copyrighted so you must seek permission prior to using it.

To obtain a copy contact the publisher Riverside Publishing through Houghton Mifflin.

Mednick, S. A., & Mednick, M. T. (1967). Examiner's manual, Remote Associates Test. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

 

Also see

Insight Problems

 


 

 


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For more information about this course, e-mail:cjbonk@indiana.edu, E-Learning Professor Curtis J. Bonk,
Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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