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Accelerating Creativity: Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Temporal Dynamics of Divergent Thinking
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Li, Yangping; Beaty, Roger E.; Luchini, Simone; Dai, David Yun; Xiang, Shuoqi; Qi, Senqing; Li, Yadan; Zhao, Ruili; Wang, Xuewei; Hu, Weiping – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been shown to enhance divergent and convergent creative thinking. Yet, how stimulation impacts creative performance over time, and what cognitive mechanisms underlie any such enhancement, remain largely unanswered questions. In the present research,…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Creative Thinking, Cognitive Processes, Inhibition
The Impact of Adding a Fourth Item to the Traditional 3-Item Remote Associates Test
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Jose A. Diaz; Steven M. Nelson; A. Alexander Beaujean; Adam E. Green; Michael K. Scullin – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The compound Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a classic measure of creativity. Participants are shown three cue words (sore-shoulder-sweat) and asked to generate a word that connects them (cold). Theoretical views of RAT performance differ in the degree to which they conceptualize performance as depending on automatic spreading activation across…
Descriptors: Test Items, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Performance
Psychometric Evaluation of an Alternate Scoring for the Remote Associates Test
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Beisemann, Marie; Forthmann, Boris; Bürkner, Paul-Christian; Holling, Heinz – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
The Remote Associates Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962; Mednick & Mednick, 1967) is a commonly employed test of creative convergent thinking. The RAT is scored with a dichotomous scoring, scoring correct answers as 1 and all other answers as 0. Based on recent research into the information processing underlying RAT performance, we argued that the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Scoring, Tests, Semantics
The Relationships of Mental States and Intellectual Processes in the Learning Activities of Students
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Prokhorov, Alexander O.; Chernov, Albert V.; Yusupov, Mark G. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Investigation of the interaction of mental states and cognitive processes in the classroom allows us to solve the problem of increasing the effectiveness of training by activating cognitive processes and management of students' mental states. This article is concerned with the most general patterns of interaction between mental state and…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence Tests, Psychometrics
The Effects of Modafinil on Convergent and Divergent Thinking of Creativity: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Mohamed, Ahmed Dahir – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
Modafinil is a drug licensed for the treatment of narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Recently, modafinil has been reported to be used as a pharmacological cognitive enhancer by healthy individuals with no psychiatric disorders. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effects of modafinil on divergent and convergent thinking tasks of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Convergent Thinking, Creativity, Randomized Controlled Trials
A Cognitive Style Approach to Creative Thought
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Noppe, Lloyd D.; Gallagher, Jeanette M. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1977
College students were administered the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), the Remote Associates Test (RAT), a questionnaire concerning RAT strategy, and two self-report scales. Field independent subjects were found to be significantly more creative than field dependents; and advanced strategy levels and insightful responses were significantly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Creative Thinking
Basic Components of Cognitive Structure. Final Report.
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Ginsburg, G. P. – 1972
This study was designed to examine the relationship between associative clustering, creative potential, and the slope of associative hierarchies. It was predicted that people whose verbal associations are organized into neatly separated clusters will have lower creative potentials as measured by the Remote Associates Test (RAT) and steeper slopes…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Processes