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The ultimate concem of the psychologist is the human mmd. and its mventions Although there are many ways to descnbe man's mental complexity-and particularly to depict his cogmtive strengths-the two terms "mtelligence" and "creativity" seem to have the greatest summary power It is this concentration of meanmg that explains the endurance of these two words m the layman's language and their contmued use in professional discussionsTypically, efforts to distmgmsh empirically between the concepts of creativity and mteUigence have concentrated on attempts to demonstrate that performance on tests requirmg the production of unusual and remote responses is mdependent (to some extent) of performance on conventional tests of intelligence But as Golann quite correctly pomts out m his recent review of studies of creativity, these data are m a sense arbitrary mtelhgence is not performance on a test, creativity is more than test performance or bemg judged as creative What is needed for the understandmg of tike relationship between creativity and mtelligence is not only data at the correlational level, but conceptual reorganization as weir (Golann, 1963, p 560) The controversy created by some of the recent research studies of creativity seems to have focused attention not on unresolved conceptual problems but on the empincal specification of particular, and sometimes arbitrary, aspects of the creativity-inteDi-

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