Creativity tests are usually:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Divergent
Option (1) Convergent — Incorrect. Convergent thinking moves towards one correct answer, the kind of thinking an intelligence test question asks for. Creativity tests do the opposite.
Option (2) Divergent — Correct. Creativity tests involve divergent thinking: they assess the ability to produce a variety of ideas, to see new relationships and to think of unusual uses of things. They let the person go in different directions.
Option (3) Close ended — Incorrect. A general feature of most creativity tests is that they are open-ended: there are no specified answers, so the person is free to use imagination.
Option (4) Specific response oriented — Incorrect. Creativity tests have no specified answers; they permit the person to think of different answers in terms of her/his own experiences.
NCERT (2025-26): “Creativity and Intelligence … Creativity tests came into existence to assess variations in terms of the potential for creativity in contrast to intelligence. 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. Therefore, there is freedom to use one’s imagination and express it in original ways. 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. This is contrary to the tests of intelligence which mostly involve convergent thinking. In tests of intelligence, the person has to think of the right solution to the problem and the focus is on assessing abilities such as memory, logical reasoning, accuracy, perceptual ability, and clear thinking. There is little scope for the expression of spontaneity, originality, and imagination.…” |