Cognitive Complexity in the Remote Association Test - Chinese Version

Hung, Su Pin; Huang, Po Sheng; Chen, Hsueh Chih

doi:10.1080/10400419.2016.1229988

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“…(26). In line with Hung, Huang and Chen (21), but in contrast to Olzmann (37), the ARAT items tended to be more difficult than the CRAT items. Moreover, for the ARAT items, the orders of item difficulties for the standard and the LSA scoring were not as comparable as for the CRAT items.…”

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Psychometric Evaluation of an Alternate Scoring for the Remote Associates Test

Beisemann

Forthmann

Bürkner

et al. 2019

Journal of Creative Behavior

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The Remote Associates Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962; Mednick & Mednick, 1967) is a commonly employed test of creative convergent thinking. The RAT is scored with a dichotomous scoring, scoring correct answers as 1 and all other answers as 0. Based on recent research into the information processing underlying RAT performance, we argued that the dichotomous scoring may lead to a loss of potentially relevant information. Thus, we proposed an alternate scoring based on semantic similarity between the answer given by the participant and the correct solution using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA; Landauer & Dumais, 1997). We evaluate the psychometric properties of the alternate LSA scoring and found evidence of construct validity for the LSA scoring which was comparable to findings for the standard scoring, but not better as we would have expected. Thus, our expectations that LSA-based scoring of the RAT counteracts potential information loss were not met. However, LSA based scorings appear to be a promising alternative for hardly solvable RAT items. We conducted additional analyses comparing different RAT item types with regard to their validity as well as evaluating the information uniquely contained in the LSA scoring. Implications of all finding for existing research using RAT items are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Psychometric Evaluation of an Alternate Scoring for the Remote Associates Test

Beisemann

Forthmann

Bürkner

et al. 2019

Journal of Creative Behavior

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“…Benefiting from its simple preparation of items and its short and objective scoring time, the RAT not only overcomes the shortcomings of insight problems, which are easily affected by the exposure of the test questions but also provides more stimulus needs for psychological experiments, especially in behavioral experiments and cognitive neuroscience experiments (Bowden and Jung-Beeman, 2003a). Hence, the RAT has been widely used in various fields, including the exploration of the process of insight problem solving (Huang, 2017), the evaluation of individual creativity (Baer and Kaufman, 2008), as a reference for diagnosing mental illness (Heatherton and Vohs, 2000;Vohs and Heatherton, 2001;Tu et al, 2017), as tools to explore the process whereby creativity develops in cognitive neuroscience (Wu et al, 2016, and for the analysis of characteristics that might affect the difficulty of RAT questions (Bowden and Jung-Beeman, 2003a;Hung et al, 2016), investigating the relationship between intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships and creative thinking performance (Colzato et al, 2013). All these show that the RAT has been commonly used to explore different orientations of creativity, from process, person, and product to place.…”

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“…Twenty-one studies focused on RAT development, of which 10 developed different versions of RAT or the RAT in different languages (Bowden and Jung-Beeman, 2003a;Akbari et al, 2012;Terai et al, 2013;Salvi et al, 2016a,b;Xiao et al, 2016;Orita et al, 2018;Olteteanu et al, 2019b;Toivainen et al, 2019). Eight studies explored the test questions with the goal of providing a reference for question compilation (Lee et al, 2014;Hung et al, 2016;Olteteanu and Schultheis, 2017;Marko et al, 2018;Beisemann et al, 2019;Wu, 2019). Moreover, four studies used computational methods to simulate individuals' performance on RAT and investigated possible influencing factors on creativity (Gupta et al, 2012;Olteteanu and Falomir, 2015;Olteteanu et al, 2018Olteteanu et al, , 2019a.…”

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A Systematic Review of Creativity-Related Studies Applying the Remote Associates Test From 2000 to 2019

Huang

Chen

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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The study examines how the remote associates test (RAT) has been used to examine theories of creativity through a review of recent studies on creativity. Creativity-related studies published between 2000 and 2019 were retrieved from the SCOPUS database. A total of 172 papers were chosen for further analysis. Content analysis shows that research on creativity using RAT mainly concerns remote association, insight problem-solving, general creative process, test development, individual difference, effect of treatment, clinical case, social interaction effect, and predictor or criterion. The study constructs a theoretical framework based on the 4P (Product-Person-Process-Place) model and demonstrates how empirical studies using the RAT explore the individual differences, internal processes, and external influences of creative thinking. In addition, the most commonly used version of the RAT is the Compound Remote Associates Problems (Bowden and Jung-Beeman, 2003a). Current research shows a trend whereby the creative thinking process has been receiving greater attention. In particular, a growing number of studies in this field have been carried out using cognitive neuroscience technologies. These findings suggest that the RAT provides researchers with a way to deepen their understanding of different levels of creativity.

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Validating the creative self-efficacy student scale with a Taiwanese sample: An item response theory-based investigation

Hung

2018

Thinking Skills and Creativity

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Cognitive Complexity in the Remote Association Test - Chinese Version

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Psychometric Evaluation of an Alternate Scoring for the Remote Associates Test

Psychometric Evaluation of an Alternate Scoring for the Remote Associates Test

A Systematic Review of Creativity-Related Studies Applying the Remote Associates Test From 2000 to 2019

Validating the creative self-efficacy student scale with a Taiwanese sample: An item response theory-based investigation

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