Associative Abilities Underlying Creativity
Associative Abilities Underlying Creativity
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DOI：
10.1037/a0027059
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Neubauer, Aljoscha C.
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作者：
Benedek, Mathias;Koenen, Tanja;Neubauer, Aljoscha C.
认知能力的实证方法声称，发散性思维代表了创造性思维潜力的有用估计。根据联想方法，建议具备流畅检索和联合收割机组合远程联想的能力，以促进创造性解决方案。总的来说，这些方法表明了联想过程和发散思维的密切关系，然而，到目前为止，还没有得到适当的测试。因此，本研究探讨了联想能力的有效性与发散思维，也在更广泛的层面上，与创造力和智力。本研究采用四种不同的词汇联想任务，考察被试的联想流畅性、联想灵活性、联想分离能力和联想组合能力。样本包括150名来自不同数量的创造力相关需求的学生。联想能力可以解释发散思维能力的一半变异。潜变量模型证实了分离和联想组合对创造力的重要性，但也证实了基本联想检索过程与智力的相关性。它的结论是，联想能力代表有效的基本认知能力的基础上的创造力。
Empirical approaches to cognitive ability claim that divergent thinking represents a useful estimate for the potential of creative thought. According to associative approaches, the ability to fluently retrieve and combine remote associations was suggested to facilitate creative solutions. Taken together, these approaches suggest a close relationship of associative processes and divergent thinking, which so far, however, has not been properly tested. Therefore, the present study examines the validity of associative abilities with respect to divergent thinking, and also, on a more general level, with respect to creativity and intelligence. Four different word-association tasks were employed to assess associative fluency, associative flexibility, dissociative ability, and the ability of associative combination. The sample comprised 150 students from studies with varying amount of creativity-related demands. Associative abilities were found to explain about half of the variance of divergent thinking ability. Latent variable modeling confirmed the significance of dissociation and associative combination for creativity, but also substantiates the relevance of basic associative retrieval processes for intelligence. It is concluded that associative abilities represent valid elementary cognitive abilities underlying creativity.