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Stephanie Alcock; Aline Ferreira-Correia; Kate Cockcroft – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2023
Creativity involves generating novel and valuable ideas. While the importance of creative thinking is widely acknowledged, its cognitive basis is poorly understood, particularly in older adults. This study aimed to develop and test an explanatory model of creative thinking to elucidate its underlying cognitive functions in an elderly sample. The…
Descriptors: Creativity, Older Adults, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking
Prager, Phillip – American Journal of Play, 2014
In a review of the methodology of the Bauhaus (Germany's famous art school of the Weimar Republic era) in light of more recent scientific research on creativity and especially in light of the work of László Moholy-Nagy, the author examines the emphasis the school placed on play and positive emotions and concludes that it evinced a highly…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cognitive Processes, Play, Associative Learning

Stanish, Bob – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1989
Through randomness we create structure, and through structure we accommodate randomness. The structures we create have basic premises shared by all life forms and forces. These patterns are repeated and shared. Creative thinking has similar characteristics. (MSE)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Divergent Thinking

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

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

Phillips, Victor K.; Torrance E. Paul – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students