Creative Experiences of Children

Creative Experiences for Children 2(1+1)

Lesson 3: Identification of Creativity

Guilford test of creativity

J. P. Guilford and associates contributed to the modern psychometric study of creativity and constructed several tests to measure creativity in 1967. Some of the tasks are explained below:

• Idea production: the subject is requested to give as many uses of an object or ideas as he can. e.g. Write as many headings as possible for a given story.
• Alternative uses: the subject has been asked to list different uncommon uses of a given thing or object.
• Plot Titles, where participants are given the plot of a story and asked to write as many as clever or original titles.
• Quick Responses is a word-association test scored for uncommonness.
• Figure Concepts: where participants were given simple drawings of objects and individuals. Ask the child to find qualities or features that are common by two or more drawings and score for uncommonness.


• Unusual Uses is finding unusual uses for common everyday objects such as bricks, bottles or pencils or pens etc.




• Remote Associations: where children are asked to find a word between two given words (e.g. Hand __ Call)
• Remote Consequences: where participants are asked to generate a list of consequences of unexpected events (e.g. loss of gravity)