During activity week at a school in Nagpur, the counsellor noted the following. Farhan, the class topper, often lost his temper in group work and quarrelled with team-mates. Kavya, an average scorer, read from a friend's tone and face that she was upset, kept calm herself and helped the group settle its dispute. Kavya's father, a carpenter, had turned an old cupboard into a study table for her. Joseph, whose parents are both musicians, showed an early gift for composing, but his work grew only after he joined a music club, got coaching and won praise from friends. In one task, students listed as many uses of a brick as they could; there was no single right answer.
Identify the task on uses of a brick given to the students.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A creativity test, as it involves divergent thinking
Option (1) An intelligence test, as it involves convergent thinking — Incorrect. Intelligence tests do involve convergent thinking, where the person must find the one right solution. The brick task has no single right answer, so it is not an intelligence test.
Option (2) A creativity test, as it involves convergent thinking — Incorrect. The test is named rightly, but the thinking is reversed. Convergent thinking narrows down to one right answer, and it belongs to intelligence tests.
Option (3) An intelligence test, as it involves divergent thinking — Incorrect. Divergent thinking fits this task, but it belongs to creativity tests. Intelligence tests look for the right solution and test memory, logical reasoning and accuracy.
Option (4) A creativity test, as it involves divergent thinking — Correct. A creativity test is open-ended and has no specified answers. Listing many uses of a brick asks for a variety of ideas, which is divergent thinking.
NCERT (2026-27): “Creativity and Intelligence … “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. …” |