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)

The measurement of creativity in children is discussed. (DLS)

Discussed are the use of personality inventories as tests of creative potential and their use as screening measures in programs for the creatively gifted. (JYC)

This study examined possible differences due to race in socioeconomically matched Caucasion and Black college classes using Torrance's Ask and Guess and Unusual Uses Tests. No differences were found based on race. (GO)

Assesses an effort by E.P. Torrance and co-workers to introduce a test they claim is based on a model of cognitive style that relates creative processes to hemispheric dominance. Challenges Torrance's theories and research methods and asserts that a model relating left and right brain dominance to creativity has little value. (GC)

The interdisciplinary relationships among 15 kinds of creative achievement were examined over 130 generations of European history. A P-technique factor analysis located three major interdisciplinary clusters: (a) discursive; (b) presentational; and (c) rationalism-mysticism. (Author)

Article considers the relation between creativity and intelligence through use of creativity tests for children. (Author/RK)

In these data and on the kinds of analogies produced by a group of highly original men and women, the simple image/direct analogy stands out as the significant thinking operation used to make the familiar strange. These subjects apparently have not found the need to use personal, symbolic, or fantasy analogy. (Author)

A report that highly creative architects often moved as children cannot be generalized to the population in this study. (Authors/CB)

Shows the relationship between certain personality variables and resistance to the effects of frustration on creativity, and shows the combined effects of personality and emotional stress on creative productivity. (Author)