A Critical Appraisal of the Theoretical Validity of the Mednick Remote Association Test

Ochse, Rhona; Lill, Burger van

doi:10.1177/008124639002000309

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“…The strength of the correlations between performance on tests of convergent thinking and measures of real-world creativity vary from very weak to moderate (e.g., Agnoli et al, 2016; Armstrong, 2012; Harris et al, 2019; Liu et al, 2019). See Cropley (2000) and Ochse and Van Lill (1990) for reviews.…”

Section: Creative Potentialmentioning

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Varieties of Inner Speech and Creative Potential

Rooij

2022

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Inner speaking, the covert talking that goes on inside a person's mind, can shape creative thought. How the phenomenological properties and quality of inner speaking correlate with a person's creative potential, however, is an open scientific problem. To explore this, participants ( n = 267) filled in the revised Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire and the revised Launay Slade Hallucination Scale (auditory subscale), and performed three tests of creative potential: one divergent (Alternative Uses Test) and two convergent thinking tests (Compound Remote Associates Test, short Hagen Matrices Test). The results showed that a tendency to engage in condensed and evaluative/ critical inner speaking negatively correlated with convergent thinking ability; and the results pointed toward a potential negative correlation of auditory hallucination proneness with divergent and convergent thinking ability. No evidence was found for a correlation of the dialogicality, imagining of others’ voices, or positive/regulatory aspect of the participants day-to-day inner speech, with creative potential. Herewith, the presented study contributes novel insight into the relationship between the varieties of inner speech and creative potential.

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Section: Creative Potentialmentioning

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Varieties of Inner Speech and Creative Potential

Rooij

2022

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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“…The Alternate Uses Task (AUT) is a classic creativity evaluation tool that has been used for decades in psychological studies to measure divergent thinking [14,15]. The Remote Associations Test (RAT) is a similarly established test that evaluates convergent thinking [16]. These two tests are widely used in creativity studies and provide metrics to measure divergent or convergent thinking.…”

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“…Building on previous research, this study focused on the effect of the microalgae facade on architecture students' creative performance and mood during several design tasks. We employed two types of creative design tasks: (1) the Alternate Uses Task [14,15] and Remote Associate Test [16] to assess divergent and convergent thinking in a constrained setting, and (2) a brainstorming task on sustainable design, a more open and naturalistic task. Emotions were tracked using the Brief Mood Introspection [17].…”

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Effect of a Microalgae Facade on Design Behaviors: A Pilot Study with Architecture Students

2023

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The influence of nature on occupant well-being and performance has been proved in office, hospital, and educational settings. There is evidence that plants and green colors affect creative and psychological responses. The microalgae facade in the study integrated spirulina, blue-green microalgae, which were cultivated using natural daylight and room air. While a good body of research explores nature’s impact on people, research on microalgae systems has not been linked to creative performance. This pilot study, therefore, focused on how the microalgae facade influences occupant mood and creativity. Forty architecture students were randomly assigned to the control and experimental rooms. The control group was surveyed in a room with a traditional window, whereas the experimental group was surveyed in a room with a biochromic window. Research design for the two conditions remained the same under IEQ-controlled environments except for the inclusion of the microalgae facade. Forty architecture students completed two creativity tasks—alternative use test (AUT) and remote association test (RAT)—and brainstorming for sustainable design in control and experimental settings. Our preliminary findings indicate that the microalgae facade did not affect divergent ideas and convergent thinking during tasks, but participants in the microalgae façade developed more design solutions that included greenery than students in the control space. This research is a preliminary investigation into the human impact of a microalgae façade and represents a new focus for scientific research. More work is needed to better grasp to what extent implementing a microalgae façade will impact human behavior in space.

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Creative Thinking From An Information Processing Perspective: A New Approach To Mednick's Theory Of Associative Hierarchies

Coney

Serna

1995

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Mednick (1962) proposed a theory of the creative thinking process which asserts that in generating associative responses to a stimulus, creative individuals are characterized by a flatter associative hierarchy than are less creative individuals. In order to assess this idea, an associative priming paradigm was used to measure latencies to lexical decisions primed by associations of low, medium, or high strength. Mednick's theory was not supported. However, it was found that the responses of creative subjects were uniformly less facilitated at all levels of associative strength. The set of associative strengths employed in the experiment may not have ranged low enough to provide a realistic test of creative processes. If so, then the obtained findings may be consistent with Mednick's theory as it applies to the upper end of the associative continuum.

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A Critical Appraisal of the Theoretical Validity of the Mednick Remote Association Test

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Varieties of Inner Speech and Creative Potential

Varieties of Inner Speech and Creative Potential

Effect of a Microalgae Facade on Design Behaviors: A Pilot Study with Architecture Students

Creative Thinking From An Information Processing Perspective: A New Approach To Mednick's Theory Of Associative Hierarchies

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