Test your creativity: five classic creative challenges.
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1.alternative uses.
Developed by JP Guildford, it stretches creativity. You have two minutes to think of as many juices as possible for an everyday object like a chair, or a brick. For example a paperclip uses could be:
– hold paper together
– cufflinks
– hearings
– imitate a mini trombone
– something to press reset button on router
– keyring
– keeping headphones from tangling
– bookmark
– balloon popper
– toothpick
The test measures divergent thinking across four subcategories:
– fluency – how many juices you can come up with.
– Flexibility – how many areas your answers, e.g. cufflinks and bearings are both accessories which equals one area.
– Originality – how uncommon uses are.
– Elaboration – level of detail in responses, e.g. keeping headphones from tangling, is worth more then bookmark.
2, incomplete figure.
developed in the 60s by psychologist Ellis Paul Torrence – the tolerance test of creative thinking (TTL T), aimed to create a creative version of an IQ test, one test is the incomplete figure test, the drawing challenge where you finish the drawing.
– An common subject matter, implied stories, humour and original perspectives all earned high marks.
3.riddles.
psychologists use riddles to measure creative problem-solving potential for convergent thinking. – See the download on website for examples
4.remote associations that
this test takes three unrelated words such as falling – actor – dust and asks you to come up with the fourth word that connects all three words. The answer is star. The answer like with the riddles will appear as a flash of insight or analysis. If it appears in a flash of insight that is seen as more creative thinking.
5.the candle problem.
creative problem-solving tests created by psychologist Karl Duncker in 1945, subjects are given a candle, a box of thumb tacks and a book of matches and are asked to fix the lit candle to the wall so that it will not drip wax on the table below. The test challenges functional fixed a cognitive bias that makes it difficult to use her earlier objects in abnormal ways.
