Measuring creative imagery abilities

Jankowska, Dorota; Karwowski, Maciej

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01591

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“…A statistically insignificant increase was observed during the study in the control group. This situation showed that the development of the children's creative imagination increased together with their experiences (Gündoğan, 2019;Jankowska & Karwowski, 2015;Semenovich Vygotsky, 2004).…”

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Scamper: Improving Creative Imagination of Young Children

Gündoğan

2019

Creativity Studies

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Young children are accepted to have creativity abilities. Creativity is a feature that needs to be improved. Many techniques are used to improve creativity. SCAMPER (substitute, combine, adjust, modify/magnify/minify, put to other uses, eliminate, reverse/rearrange) is one of the techniques used to improve creativity. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of SCAMPER in improving creative imagination of 5-year-old children attending kindergarten. For this purpose, 49 children from the age group of 5 year attending a kindergarten in the Southwestern part of Turkey participated in the study. There were an experimental group and a control group in the study. SCAMPER technique was applied to the children in the experimental group. The control group continued to the normal education program. The data were collected by using Test of Creative Imagination (Child Form), which was developed by Aysun Gündoğan in 2019. At the end of the study, it was found that creative imagination levels of the children in the experimental group receiving education with SCAMPER technique increased. Differences among children receiving SCAMPER education were found in the fluency sub-dimension of creativity. The SCAMPER technique was effective in improving the creative imagination. Therefore, techniques and activities that enable the development of creative imagination should be applied to individuals from an early age.

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Scamper: Improving Creative Imagination of Young Children

Gündoğan

2019

Creativity Studies

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“…Although a number of measures exist that assess constructs similar to imagination, these measures generally approach imagination as the ability to conjure mental imagery, or view imagination as a component of creative ability (e.g., Jankowska & Karwowski, 2015, Marks, 1973. One of the exceptions is the Imaginal Processes Inventory (Singer & Antrobus, 1966), however its administration is time-consuming (344 items), and some of its features may not be entirely relevant to imagination (e.g., acceptance and distractibility).…”

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“…For example, some measures of mental imagery and creative imagination assess the ability for imagery with measures akin to divergent thinking tests (e.g., Torrance, 1974). These measures instruct participants to generate images from incomplete figures, with responses scored for vividness, originality, and transformative ability (Jankowska & Karwowski, 2015). Another self-report instrument attempts to quantify participants' evaluations of their own imagination, encompassing satisfaction, implementation, learning, and process (Jung, Flores, & Hunter, 2016).…”

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The Four-Factor Imagination Scale (FFIS): a measure for assessing frequency, complexity, emotional valence, and directedness of imagination

Zabelina

Condon

2019

Psychological Research

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Recent findings in psychological research have begun to illuminate cognitive and neural mechanisms of imagination and mental imagery, and have highlighted its essential role for a number of important outcomes, including outcomes relevant for the study of psychopathology and psychotherapy. Scientific study of imagination, however, has been constrained by the virtue of being framed mainly as an ability for mental imagery. Here we propose that imagination is a widespread phenomenon that we all engage in, and which affects a wide range of important outcomes beyond more commonly studied constructs like creativity. Thus, the Four-Factor Imagination Scale (FFIS) focuses on features of the imaginative process, and measures imagination in terms of individual differences in those features, including Frequency, Complexity, Emotional Valence, and Directedness of imagination. Study 1 consisted of construct elicitation and generation of a large pool of candidate survey items. Study 2 (N = 378) conducted exploratory quantitative analysis on the preliminary pool of candidate items in a larger sample, revealing four distinct factors of the designed items. Study 3 (N = 10,410) confirmed the structure of the preliminary items, and reported internal consistency and unidimensionality, as well as convergent and discriminant validity of the resultant scales. The FFIS confirms that imagination is multifaceted in nature, and is better approached as a constellation of more narrowly measurable constructs.

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“…The Test of Creative Imagery Abilities (TCIA; Jankowska & Karwowski, 2015) was used to examine the role of imagination in friendships. It was found that students with higher scores on the TCIA were more likely to be nominated as a friend by their peers (McKay, Grygiel, & imagination was related to introspection and conformity, as well as to creativity and art appreciation.…”

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“…HIQ (Jung et al, 2016) is a suitable instrument for studying imagination over time (4 separate sessions, 3-7 days apart), while the TCIA (Jankowska & Karwowski, 2015) is a performance-based measure of imagination that differentiates between vividness, originality, and transformativeness of one's imagination. It should be noted that the vividness factor of the TCIA reflects the ability for persistent and thorough work, as it has shown to correlate with intelligence, and achievement test scores in math and reading.…”

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