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Coney, Jeffrey; Serna, Peta – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1995
To evaluate Mednick's theory of the creative thinking process, an associative priming paradigm was used to measure latencies to lexical decisions primed by associations of low, medium, or high strength with 20 high-creative and 20 low-creative high school students. Mednick's theory that creative individuals show a flatter associative hierarchy…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity