In this fact sheet creativity is defined and stages in the creative process and characteristics of creative persons are discussed. Research approaches to creativity and blocks to the creative process are described. Six creative approaches to integrating creativity into counseling are delineated. (MCF)

This study examined the creative performance among siblings of various ordinal birth positions. Subjects were 36 male elementary students, nine sets of four brothers with no additional siblings of either sex in their families. Their families were primarily of middle socioeconomic status and both parents were college graduates. Each subject was…

Reports on research efforts to isolate and identify standards of judging creativity, and to develop judgment and objective correlate measures of creativity in writing. (RB)

One of the claimed benefits of Transcendental Meditation is increased creativity, although the literature neither supports nor negates such a claim. Four groups of 35 subjects each were studied over a six-month period and administered a battery of five creativity measures, both before and after the study period. One group of adults was enrolled in…

This document contains six essays originating from a workshop held at Estoril, Portugal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The preface describes the focus of the project as an attempt to discover how schools could respond to societal pressures in ways that were both socially responsive and internally creative. The…

This study which involved 60 kindergarten and 69 second grade students sought to identify a significant relationship between internal control perception and creativity. Internal control refers to the perception of positive and/or negative events as being a consequence of one's own actions and thereby under personal control. The Bialer (1961) locus…

One in a series of over 50 similar selected listings relating to handicapped and gifted children, the bibliography contains 81 references on the gifted and creativity selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts. References include research reports, conference papers, journal articles, texts, and program guides, and are provided with…

Contained in the annotated bibliography are 73 references to research dealing with creativity and gifted children. Research covers such aspects as academic achievement, cognitive processes, creative thinking, individual characteristics, personality, student attitudes, teaching methods, testing, and program evaluation. The bibliography is one in a…

Thirty-two males were divided into high and low creative groups based on the Remote Associates Test and the Alternative Uses Tests. High creatives exhibited a lower basal alpha index, a higher basal theta index, differential amounts of alpha on creativity and intelligence tests, and were better at alpha control in a feedback situation than low…

The selected bibliography of research on gifted children and creativity contains approximately 79 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the…

Numerous studies of verbal creativity indicate that idea originality increases progressively as more ideas are produced. The present study tested the effects of practice upon nonverbal creativity. Thirty-two fifth grade children were administered Form A and/or Form B of Torrance's picture completion task for 5 consecutive days. Figural originality…

To test the hypothesis that common responses will tend to predominate initially with unique or original responses occurring more often later in a sequence of responses, 56 protocols from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were examined. Both a figural and a verbal form were administered following prescribed directions to children in the…

Studies creativity as it relates to body image, and examines the communality of several creativity measures. (RC)

Twenty-six elementary teachers and 51 fourth grade students were administered the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and the Rorschach Inkblot Test. (Author/CL)

Discussed is the identification and stimulation of creative imagination imagery. (Author/DLS)