Correct Answer - Option 2 : do divergent thinking
Creativity-
The most advanced thought process, creativity, involves the production of uncommon and novel ideas that are highly relevant to the situation. Creativity is goal-directed thinking which is unusual, novel, and useful.
- Guilford (1986) considered creative thinking as involving divergent thinking, which emphasizes fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
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Divergent thinking is closely associated with creativity and originality and involves the ability to envision multiple ways to solve a problem.
- Divergent thinking is concerned with thinking in different directions, sometimes searching, sometimes seeking variety.
- Divergent thinking comprises a relatively distinct group that stands apart from the conventional concept of general intelligence.
Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that Creativity includes the ability to do divergent thinking.
Characteristics of Creativity-
- It is imaginative involving imagination since it is the process of generating something original.
- It is purposeful, that is, creativity is imagination put into action towards an end.
- Creativity involves the generation of ideas and also evaluate, and deciding which one is the most adequate
Test for measuring Creativity-
- Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
- The Wallach and Kogan Tests
- The Guilford Battery.
