Sunita is regarded by her teachers as an excellent student. She does her work on time, scores the highest grades in her class, listens to instructions with care, grasps quickly, reproduces accurately but she rarely comes out with ideas which are her own. Rita is another student who is just average in her studies and has not achieved high grades consistently. She prefers to learn on her own. She improvises new ways of helping her mother at home and comes up with new ways of doing her work and assignments.

Which of the following statement (s) is/are incorrect in the context of creativity?

a. Terman, in the 1930s, found that persons with high IQ were not necessarily creative.

b. Some researches have shown that not even one of those identified as gifted, followed up throughout their adult life, had become well-known for creativity in some field.

c. Researchers have also found that both high and low level of creativity can be found in highly intelligent children and also children of average intelligence.

d. Intelligence by itself ensures creativity.

a and d

Terman, in the 1920s, found that persons with high IQ were not necessarily creative. At the same time, creative ideas could come from persons who did not have a very high IQ. Other researches have shown that not even one of those identified as gifted, followed up throughout their adult life, had become well-known for creativity in some field. Researchers have also found that both high and low level of creativity can be found in highly intelligent children and also children of average intelligence. The same person, thus, can be creative as well as intelligent but it is not necessary that intelligent ones, in the conventional sense, must be creative. Intelligence, therefore, by itself does not ensure creativity.