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This experiment introduces a new measurement of creative potential - Functions Synthesis Task (FST), in which we ask participants to come up with as many objects that fulfill three functions given as they can. One's creative potential is measured by the number of objects (fluency), the number of categories of objects (flexibility), the possibility that other people cannot think of the objects (originality), and the detailed information that participants' wrote for objects (elaboration); The higher the scores in these four dimensions, the higher the creative potential. The generation of FST was inspired by Alternative Uses Task (AUT) and Compound Remote Associate Test (CRAT) - two instruments that have been widely employed to measure individuals' creative potential. AUT asks participants to generate as many different and unusual uses for an object that they can think of and scores the participants' performance based on the originality, fluency, elaboration, and flexibility of their answers; The higher the AUT score, the higher the creative potential. CRAT asks participants to come up with a single correct answer that makes up a common compound word or phrase with three stimulus words given and scores the participants' performance based on the number of correct answers (accuracy) and speed in a series of word puzzles; The higher the accuracy and speed in CRAT, the higher the creative potential. According to existing claims, AUT and CRAT measure divergent and convergent creativity, respectively. Our new measurement (i.e. FST) serves as a complement of AUT and CRAT in measuring individuals' creative potential. While AUT and CRAT treat divergent and convergent thinking as independent thinking processes, FST measures divergent and convergent thinking processes as an integration. In detail, the process in which come up with objects that fulfill three functions given requires one's convergent thinking, the requirement that name as many objects as possible encourages one's divergent thinking. Accordingly, the fluency and flexibility of one's answers indicate her/his divergent thinking in a convergent context; Originality and elaboration of one's answers represent her/his convergent thinking based on divergent retrieval of existing knowledge. Integrating divergent and convergent thinking in one task has differentiated FST from AUT and CRAT. Participants will finish FST, AUT, CRAT, and a Creative Self-efficacy Inventory in our experiment. and we propose a question that does one's performance in FST correlated with other creativity measurements. Their performance in our experiment not only explicit the relationship between FST and other measurements, but also created a criteria (i.e. fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration) baseline for future studies. |
