Chapter 5

Self-Assessment 5-5





How Creative Am I?



To evaluate your creative thinking skills, take the following creativity test.



This test is one frequently used by psychologists to measure creativity. The test is called a Remote Associates Test (RAT) because it measures you ability to see relationships between things that are only remotely associated. Read the instructions carefully before beginning the test.



Instructions: Look at the three words and find a fourth word that is related to all three.





Example: What word is related to these three words?



paint doll cat



The answer is "house": house paint, dollhouse, and house cat.





Here is another example:



stool powder ball



The answer is "foot": footstool, foot powder, and football.



You have 20 minutes to complete the following items:





1. call pay line 2. end burning blue 3. man hot sure 4. stick pal ball 5. blue cake cottage 6. man wheel high 7. motion poke down 9. line birthday surprise 10. wood liquor luck 11. house village golf 12. plan show walker 13. key wall previous 14. bell iron tender 15. water youth soda 16. base snow dance 17. stop kart slow 18. up book charge 19. tin writer my 20. leg arm person 21. weight out pencil 22. spin tip shape 23. sharp tick tie 24. out band night 25. cool house fat 26. back go light 27. man order air 28. bath up burst 29. ball out blue 30. up around rear





Check your answers with the following suggested answers. There may be other appropriate answers, as well



1. phone 11. green 21. lead 2. book 12. floor 22. top 3. fire 13. stone 23. tack 4. pin 14. bar 24. watch 5. cheese 15. fountain 25. cat 6. chair 16. ball 26. stop 7. slow 17. go 27. mail 8. glass 18. cover 28. bubble 9. party 19. type 29. black 10. hard 20. chair 30. end



Normative Data



The following normative data were collected on university undergraduates. Calculate the number you got correct and look up your percentile ranking.



Number Correct Percentile 24-28 95% 21-23 80% 19-20 65% 16-18 50% 13-15 35% 10-13 20% 7-9 8% 1-5 1%