Which of the following is true about creativity test?

(A) Creativity tests involve convergent thinking

(B) Most of the creativity tests are subjective and open-ended

(C) Creativity tests involve divergent thinking

(D) Creativity test are often closed ended and objective

(E) Creativity tests involve spontaneity, originality and imagination

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(B), (C) and (E) only

A general feature of most of the creativity tests is that they are open-ended. They permit the person to think of different answers to the questions or problems in terms of her/his experiences, whatever these may have been. These help the individual to go in different directions. There are no specified answers to questions or problems in creativity tests.

Creativity tests involve divergent thinking and assess such abilities as ability to produce a variety of ideas, i.e. ideas which are off-the-beaten track, ability to see new relationships between seemingly unrelated things, ability to guess causes and consequences, ability to put things in a new context, etc.