COP3 : Test your creativity: five classic creative challenges.

http://99u.com/articles/7160/test-your-creativity-5-classic-creative-challenges

Test your creativity: five classic creative challenges.

Notes :

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.