ABSTRACT

Circle the correct answer.

The creative process appears to be fundamentally different from the everyday thinking processes that most people use.

T F

Most great creative acts involve serendipity, a “happy accident” in which the creative individual is lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time.

T F

Thinking analogically requires the application of information that was learned in one context to a very different context.

T F

All of the strategies for enhancing creative thinking involve the “spread of activation” through the knowledge base that an individual has stored in memory.

T F

People who have many ideas are more likely to come up with good ideas than people who have few ideas.

T F

An environment that is supportive of the creative process is one in which individuals receive continuous rewards for their work.

T F

Because creative acts are, by definition, unusual, creative people tend to be less concerned about conformity than less creative people.

T F

Research has shown that it is not possible to increase creativity with training because the creative process does not follow rules.

T F

Creative people tend to be good at finding problems that most of us fail to recognize, in addition to being good problem solvers.

T F

The most important component of the creative process is a large, interconnected knowledge net.

T F