A. Genetic factors play an important role
B. Nurture affects creativity
C. Creativity involves high emotional intelligence
D. Creativity involves convergent thinking
E. A minimum level of intelligence is required for creativity but beyond that intelligence doesn't matter.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A, B and E only
A. Genetic factors play an important role Correct. Creativity, like other mental characteristics, is determined by both heredity and environment. Heredity sets the limits of the creative potential a person can have.
B. Nurture affects creativity Correct. Environmental factors such as motivation, commitment, family support, peer influences and training opportunities stimulate creativity. They largely decide how much of the creative potential is realised, when, and in what form.
C. Creativity involves high emotional intelligence Incorrect. Emotional intelligence is a set of skills for the accurate appraisal, expression and regulation of emotions, the feeling side of intelligence. Creativity is the ability to produce something new and original, and it is not tied to a high emotional intelligence.
D. Creativity involves convergent thinking Incorrect. Creativity tests are open-ended and involve divergent thinking: producing a variety of ideas, seeing new relationships between unrelated things, putting things in a new context. Convergent thinking, finding the one right solution to a problem, is what intelligence tests mostly involve.
E. A minimum level of intelligence is required for creativity but beyond that intelligence doesn’t matter. Correct. Every creative act needs some minimum ability to acquire, retain and use knowledge; a writer needs a command of language, an artist must understand painting techniques. So a certain level of intelligence is required, but beyond that level intelligence does not correlate well with creativity.
NCERT (2025-26): “Creativity … How do we explain variations in the potential for creativity? As in the case of other mental and physical characteristics, such variations can be attributed to the complex interaction of heredity and environment. There is no disagreement that creativity is determined by both heredity and environment. Limits of the creative potential are set by heredity, environmental factors stimulate the development of creativity. How much of the creative potential can be realised, when and in what specific form and direction is largely determined by environmental factors such as motivation, commitment, family support, peer influences, training opportunities, etc.…” “Creativity and Intelligence … Researchers have found that the relationship between creativity and intelligence is positive. All creative acts require some minimum ability to acquire knowledge and capacity to comprehend, retain, and retrieve. Creative writers, for example, need facility in dealing with language. The artist must understand the effect that will be produced by a particular technique of painting, a scientist must be able to reason and so on. Hence, a certain level of intelligence is required for creativity but beyond that intelligence does not correlate well with creativity.…” “Creativity and Intelligence … 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.…” |