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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"measures of creativity"”.
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The Paradox of Reading Disabilities: Assessing Creative Potential in Children at-risk for Reading Disabilities
This study explores the profiles of children who are at-risk for reading disabilities on both traditional reading-based tasks and measures of creativity. Twenty-six (26) children referred to the Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region were administered a series of reading-based …
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Markov Chains as Tools for Jazz Improvisation Analysis
This thesis describes an exploratory application of a statistical analysis and modeling technique (Markov chains) for the modeling of jazz improvisation with the intended subobjective of providing increased insight into an improviser's style and creativity through the postulation of quantitative …
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Response to the Blank Card of the Thematic Apperception Test as an Indication of Creativity
… to evoke creative responses, but the usefulness of these cards has never been compared to that of the blank card (Card 16), which presents alternative conditions for the emergence of creativity. The blank card is analogous to a blank sheet of paper or a blank canvas because it provides the …
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Creativity and psychosis vulnerability: An examination of similarities and differences in factors associated with early psychosis, professional creative and non-creative populations
… subjects, as having significantly higher odds of developing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder than non-creative students. They assert that, it is this creativity that predates the onset of psychosis and advocate for further research. Given the aforementioned emerging research, the question of …
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Cognitive processes associated with creativity : scale development and validation
… studies involving the cognitive components of creativity training, the Cognitive Processes Associated with Creativity (CPAC) scale was developed to efficiently and directly address the processes of brainstorming, metaphorical and analogical thinking, perspective-taking, imagery, incubation, …
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Verbal Creativity and Ambiguity Resolution in the Cerebral Hemispheres
… in ambiguity resolution in subjects who vary on measures of creativity. Subjects were classified as either low, moderate, or high creative based on the results of convergent and divergent thinking tests as well as a personality inventory. Two experiments utilized a divided visual field (DVF) …
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Creative Aging: Functional Neural Networks Associated with Creativity in Aging
Creativity is the ability to generate novel associations and has been linked to better problem-solving and real-world functional abilities. Creative ability has been implicated in successful aging including psychological, social, spiritual and, cognitive functioning (Duhamel, 2016). Creative …
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Creativity, altered states of consciousness and anomalous cognition: the role of epistemological flexibility in the creative process
… a question is posed that concerns ‘varieties of creativity’ that have infrequently been explored empirically, although often described anecdotally. This question being: is, and if so, how, is creativity related to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) and parapsychological experiences? This …
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Effects of Group Interactive Brainstorming on Creativity
Corporations spend a great deal of time and money trying to facilitate innovation in their employees. The act of introducing something new, a product or a service that is viable and innovative is often increased by enhancing or nurturing creativity.This experimental study investigated the effect of …