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1. The least important thing to realize about creativity is that only very few people possess it.
a. True
b. False
2. One definition of creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.
a. True
b. False
3. Convergent thinking usually results in many answers or solutions to a question or problem.
a. True
b. False
4. Creativity involves the two processes of discovering and producing.
a. True
b. False
5. Research on creativity has shown that the best motivations for creativity are structure and organization.
a. True
b. False
6. Anexampleof“CapitalC”creativityistheinventionofthelightbulb.
a. True
b. False
7. Creativity with older children involves more of an emphasis on the criteria of original thinking.
_________________________
8. Children enjoy creativity and benefit from it in many ways, including:
a. developing their potential to think.
b. developing new skills.
c. learning to seek the right answer to a problem.
d. developing their potential to think and developing new skills.
9. Some characteristics of creative children are that they are:
a. easily discouraged and self-deprecatory.
b. easily pleased.
c. discontented.
d. stubborn, discontented, and self-satisfied.
10. A creative behavior is an act that is:
a. performed only once by an individual.
b. valued only by the doer and not by others.
c. original for the individual on a one-time basis.
d. original for the individual and valued by that person or others.
11. Teachers can help children express their creativity by helping children:
a. appreciate themselves for being able to follow rules.
b. learn to judge and accept their own feelings.
c. recognize that there is usually one best answer to a problem.
d. both appreciate themselves for being able to follow rules and learn to judge and accept their own feelings.
12. Some characteristics of a creative child are:
a. determination, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks.
b. needs companionship for enrichment.
c. enjoys participation in general.
d. stubbornness, fear, and neatness.
13. Teachers benefit from encouraging creativity in such ways as:
a. being able to use a more standardized curriculum.
b. learning to recognize children for their unique skills.
c. being able to plan fewer lessons.
d. being able to turn the curriculum over to the children.
14. Mrs. White was very disappointed when James began to use his Popsicle sticks for a car ramp instead of using them
to make the holiday picture frame she had planned. On the basis of information on creativity in your text, Mrs.
White:
a. should not plan activities using dangerous objects such as Popsicle sticks.
b. has more concern for process than for product.
c. need not be concerned as long as James is happy and busy.
d. has more concern for product than for process and convergent thinking.
15. Children are being creative when they are:
a. redefining situations, demonstrating stubbornness, and solving problems.
b. solving problems, being adventurous, and giving the correct answer.
c. solving problems, redefining situations, and demonstrating flexibility.
d. demonstrating flexibility, being rational, and solving problems.
16. Frequent evaluation:
a. smothers creativity.
b. keeps a child on task.
c. helps improve performance.
d. smothers creativity, keeps a child on task, and helps improve performance.
17. Learningthe“waythingsaredone”isanexampleof:
a. convergent thinking and an important part of creativity.
b. divergent thinking and an important part of creativity.
c. a part of creativity involving discovery.
d. a part of creativity involving process and discovery.
18. Creativity with older children involves:
a. the generation of ideas and products.
b. the creation of ideas and products.
c. the creation of original products and original solutions
d. the creation of original ideas and products
19. An example of creativity is:
a. making a puppet out of a new kind of paper.
b. using paper for the first time to make bumps on a collage.
c. using red for a tree.
d. using pencils and crayons in her drawing.
20. Creativity can be encouraged by helping children:
a. feel joy in their creative productions.
b. develop perseverance.
c. learntojudgeothers’artworks.
d. feel joy in their creative productions and develop perseverance.
21. Creative children:
a. possess many unlikable traits.
b. possess many likable traits.
c. can be frustrating to work with.
d. can be frustrating yet a joy to work with.
22. The most important thing to realize about creativity is that:
a. it involves both convergent and divergent thinking.
b. everyone possesses a certain amount of it.
c. it involves many kinds of thought processes.
d. it involves both convergent and divergent thinking, everyone possesses a certain amount of it, and it involves
many kinds of thought processes.
23. According to Paul Torrance, creativity:
a. does not always display itself through desirable behaviors.
b. involvesteachers’andstudents’attitudes.
c. involves habits and environment.
d. involves habitats.
24. According to Torrance, one way to enhance your creativity is to:
a. read your favorite books.
b. spend time with friends.
c. go another way to school.
d. increase acceptance.
25. AccordingtoMayesky,onewaytoimproveaschool’screativityis:
a. to help children realize that some problems have no easy answers.
b. to reward children for being creative.
c. to help children develop perseverance.
d. all of the above.
26. The first part of the creative process is:
a. testing.
b. evaluating.
c. using learned skills.
d. discovery.
27. Imagination is to creativity as:
a. candy is to a diet.
b. the motor is to an automobile.
c. a comb to a bald man.
d. coal is to an air conditioner.
28. Creativity has been present throughout history beginning with:
a. nuclear power.
b. prehistoric cave paintings.
c. the steamboat.
d. the wheel.
29. ____________________ usually results in multiple answers or solutions to a question or problem.
30. _____________________ results in a single answer or solution to a problem.
31. Counting the number of fish in an aquarium is an example of ____________________ thinking.
32. Thinking of all the uses for a brick is an example of ____________________ thinking.
33. With older children, the criteria of creativity involve more of an emphasis on _______________ or solutions.
34. ________________, a pioneer in the study of creativity, suggests that creativity is the ability to produce something
novel, something with the stamp of uniqueness on it.
35. Creation stories passed on by __________________ and _______________ groups reflect a creative desire.
36. List eight things that can be done for children to help them express natural creative tendencies.
