The annotated bibliography on research in the area of the gifted and talented contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents selected from the computer file of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Center and published from 1959 to 1973. It is explained that the abstracts are chosen according to…

This literature review concerns the relationships between imitation-modeling as a learning process and creative behaviors. If it can be demonstrated that creative (unusual, flexible) behaviors are increased upon seeing other creative behaviors modeled, this finding would contradict the simple matching to template interpretation for modeling…

The encouragement of creative thinking on the part of librarians is the purpose of this management guide. Every librarian has creative potential and the author discusses ways it can be developed. Included are discussions on the meaning of creativity, the need for creativity in libraries, traits of the creative librarian, steps in the creative…

The selected bibliography on gifted and talented contains approximately 100 abstracts with indexing information. Abstracts were drawn from the computer file of the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of June, 1973 and were chosen using the criteria of availability of document to user, currency, information…

The purpose of this study was to determine patterns of similarities and differences in perception of the college environment of four groups of undergraduate students classified as to degree of creative ability. Three questions were asked: (1) do perceptions of the actual or real campus environment differ for the group with the higher (HM) as…

This presentation focuses on honesty as an ingredient in the creative process of artists. Several suggestions resulted from this research: (1) the product of the creative process is about something; it has a referent, and this referent involves the artist's personal vision of world and self; (2) the honesty is not a recitation of factual reality…

This program, which consists of six volumes, a teaching strategies packet, and audiovisual materials, is based on a model which stresses the importance of identifying and encouraging eight thinking-feeling abilities which all children are capable of developing. The basic goals of the program are concentrated on stimulating growth in these…

Designed as a forum for the creative photographer who can produce work of an outstanding character, this 18th edition of the annual presents over 160 photographs whose themes range from advertising and industrial pictures, through unusual pictorial solutions in fashion photography, to experimental work, novel nude studies, and dramatic landscapes.…

The past 20 years have seen a resurgence of interest on the part of psychologists in what used to be called "the higher mental processes," with the difference that while the earlier workers were concerned with the power of reasoning, recent interest has centered upon the use of language. The scope of the material that has appeared is frequently…

TESTS ON CREATIVE PERSONALITY WERE STUDIED AND VALIDATED. THE FIVE TESTS CONSIDERED APPROACHED THE PROBLEM OF CREATIVITY MEASUREMENT IN DIFFERING WAYS. TWO WERE CHOSEN FROM PUBLISHED LITERATURE--(1) "SELF-DESCRIPTIVE EXPLORATORY RESEARCH INVENTORY," AND (2) "INCOMPLETE FIGURES TEST." THREE WERE ADAPTED OR DEVISED BY THE…

An author reflects on memory, language, the real, children's literature, myths, icons, and the interplay between structure and freedom. (IRT)

Examines the relationship between children's literature and child psychology, concluding that the divergence between the two disciplines has more to do with function and method than with values or motivation. (GT)

The basic principle of synaesthesia (a sensation produced in one part of the body by a stimulus applied at another part) is described. (BD)

Discussed are five dimensions through which one may better analyze and understand the nature and extent of a problem. (BD)

Five basic researcher qualities which seem to characterize creative individuals who want to generate knowledge are identified. (BD)