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Vitrano, Deana; Altarriba, Jeanette; Leblebici-Basar, Deniz – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
S.A. Mednick (1962) proposed a theory of creativity suggesting that highly creative individuals can produce more word associations to a stimulus than less creative individuals. Numerous studies have supported this theory using the Remote Associates Test (RAT) as the measure of creativity. Additionally, some studies have suggested that…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Associative Learning, Task Analysis, Creativity

Smith, I. Leon – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Associative Learning, Creativity

Clabby, John F., Jr. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1979
The humor element as a reinforcing tool was examined. Experimental group subjects selecting nouns were shown humorous cartoons. Non-noun selection was followed by a humorless cartoon. Results indicated that humor significantly facilitated intentional learning for the low-creative experimental group. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Creativity, Humor

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
Lynch, Mervin D. – 1971
The Mini Rat (Remote Associates Test) was developed in response to the need for creativity measures with which one could study the consequences of elementary school teaching on the students' creative potential. It is an associative measure with 20 items in which children are asked to give verbal responses to word doublets in the form of third…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Creativity, Creativity Research