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One-Year-Olds Think Creatively, Just Like Their Parents
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Hoicka, Elena; Mowat, Rachael; Kirkwood, Joanne; Kerr, Tiffany; Carberry, Megan; Bijvoet-van den Berg, Simone – Child Development, 2016
Creativity is an essential human ability, allowing adaptation and survival. Twenty-nine 1-year-olds and their parents were tested on divergent thinking (DT), a measure of creative potential counting how many ideas one can generate. Toddlers' and parents' DT was moderately to highly correlated. Toddlers showed a wide range of DT scores, which were…
Descriptors: Creativity, Toddlers, Parents, Correlation
Quantity and Quality of Creative Thinking in Children and Adolescents
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Milgram, Roberta M.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Quantity and quality of creative thinking on the Wallach and Kogan Creativity Battery were found to be moderately related in both sixth-grade children and high school seniors. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Creative Thinking
Original Thinking in Preschool Children.
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Moran, James D., III; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Findings demonstrated that the Guilford-Mednick conceptualization of original thinking is applicable to preschool as well as to older children. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Intelligence Quotient, Preschool Children
Can Children Remember to Be Creative? An Interview Study of Children's Thinking Processes.
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La Greca, Annette M. – Child Development, 1980
Employs a clinical interview methodology to examine some of the creative thinking strategies commonly used by children in elementary school grades. Results suggest that children use several strategies on creativity tasks. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests