“Jamaicanizing” the Mednick Remote Associates Test of Creativity

Hamilton, Marlene

doi:10.2466/pms.1982.55.1.321

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“…The RAT has already been successfully translated into Japanese, Jamaican, and Hebrew (Baba, 1982;Hamilton, 1982;Nevo & Levin, 1978) in order to allow the study of creativity and insight problem solving in other languages. Our study is the first attempt to create a large set of CRA problems for Italian speakers.…”

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Validation of Italian rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems

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Rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems have been successfully used to study problem solving. These problems are physically compact, often can be solved within short time limits, and have unambiguous solutions, and English versions have been normed for solving rates and levels of difficulty. Many studies on problem solving with sudden insight have taken advantage of these features in paradigms that require many quick solutions (e.g., solution priming, visual hemifield presentations, electroencephalography, fMRI, and eyetracking). In order to promote this vein of research in Italy, as well, we created and tested Italian versions of both of these tests. The data collected across three studies yielded a pool of 88 rebus puzzles and 122 compound remote associate problems within a moderate range of difficulty. This article provides both sets of problems with their normative data, for use in future research.

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“…Indeed, we know only of sets of problems in Hebrew, Japanese, and Jamaican (Baba, 1982;Hamilton, 1982;Nevo & Levin, 1978). With the Italian version of the CRA problems and rebus puzzles, we aimed to provide a useful apparatus to extend the findings concerning the mental processes underlying creativity to languages other than English.…”

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Validation of Italian rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems

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“…Experimentally, it has been used in variety of clinical studies, including manic depression (Fodor & Greenier, 1995) and schizotypy (Weinstein & Graves, 2001). Psychometrically, it has been tested with Japanese (Baba, 1982), Jamaican (Hamilton, 1982) and Hebrew (Nevo, 1978) populations, and has been found to have excellent cross-cultural validity.…”

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The Effects of Modafinil on Convergent and Divergent Thinking of Creativity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Mohamed

2014

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Modafinil is a drug licensed for the treatment of narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Recently, modafinil has been reported to be used as a pharmacological cognitive enhancer by healthy individuals with no psychiatric disorders. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effects of modafinil on divergent and convergent thinking tasks of creativity. Sixty-four healthy male (n = 31) and female (n = 33) volunteers participated in a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled parallel group design study. For the convergent thinking tasks, modafinil had no significant main effect on the Group Embedded Figures Task and the Remote Associates Task (RAT). However, a median split analysis showed that modafinil participants low in creativity personality trait had significantly higher RAT scores (Mean [M] = 6.85, SD = 3.39; 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 5.53-8.2) than those high in creativity personality trait (M = 4.27, SD = 3.0; 95% CI: 2.4-6.0). For the divergent thinking tasks, relative to placebo (M = 1.195, SD = 0.28; 95% CI: 1.0-1.3), modafinil (M = 0.77, SD = 0.37; 95% CI: 0.63-0.92) significantly reduced the performance of flexibility scores and marginally reduced the elaboration scores as measured by the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA). Overall, participants on modafinil (M = 6.3, SD = 2.6; 95% CI: 5.3-7.4) had significantly lower ATTA scores relative to participants on placebo (M = 9.5, SD = 2.3; 95% CI: 8.6-10.4). These results indicate that modafinil might reduce divergent thinking of creativity in healthy individuals. They suggest that, rather than being a more general cognitive enhancer, modafinil might have negative and subtle effects on creativity. However, the results are from a small-scale trial, which tested a small number of participants. Therefore, the results need to be interpreted with caution. A replication with a large sample of participants is recommended.

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“…Instead, RAT problems in a particular language must take into account the specific characteristics of the chosen language's vocabulary and its colloquial conventions (Salvi, Costantini, Bricolo, Perugini, & Beeman, 2016). For this reason, the RAT has been adapted to other-language versions, including among others Chinese (Shen, Yuan, Liu, Yi, & Dou, 2016;Wu & Chen, 2017), Dutch (Chermahini, Hickendorff, & Hommel, 2012), or Italian (Salvi et al, 2016) and adapted to other cultural-contexts, such as Jamaica (Hamilton, 1982) or Spain (Romo, 1980). The adaptations usually start from the original RAT developed by Mendick, selecting only those items appropriate for their respective cultural context.…”

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Normative data for 102 Spanish remote associate problems and age-related differences in performance

Peláez-Alfonso

Pelegrina

Lechuga

2020

Psicológica Journal

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The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a measure developed by Mednick (1962) which is used to assess the convergent thinking component of creativity. This study presents a normative database in Spanish including 102 problems based on the RAT. Three sets of problems were built according to the type of between-word associations: semantic, compound, and two-word expressions. These problems were administered to a sample of 309 elementary, high-school, and university students. The results show good internal consistency as well as good convergent validity with insight problems, and discriminant validity using Guilford’s Alternative Uses Test. In addition, the results indicate age-related differences in the ability to solve the different types of problems.

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“Jamaicanizing” the Mednick Remote Associates Test of Creativity

Cited by 14 publications

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Validation of Italian rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems

Validation of Italian rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems

The Effects of Modafinil on Convergent and Divergent Thinking of Creativity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Normative data for 102 Spanish remote associate problems and age-related differences in performance

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