Which of the following set is correct about the elements of creativity?

2019

Which of the following set is correct about the elements of creativity?

  1. A.

    Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Collaboration

  2. B.

    Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration

  3. C.

    Frequency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration

  4. D.

    Fluency, Feasibility, Originality, Elaboration

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Correct answer: B

Psychologists studying creative or divergent thinking (as in J. P. Guilford's Structure-of-Intellect model, later operationalised in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking) describe four measurable components of creativity: the number of distinct ideas a person can produce, the variety of categories or approaches those ideas span, how novel or rare the ideas are, and how much additional detail a person adds while developing an idea further.

Checking each option against these four components shows that only one set names all four correctly, without substituting an unrelated trait for any of them.

  • Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Collaboration — collaboration describes working jointly with others, a social/interpersonal skill, not a component of an individual's creative-thinking process, so this set is incorrect.

  • Frequency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration — frequency refers to how often something repeats, not the ability to generate a large number of distinct ideas, so this set is incorrect.

  • Fluency, Feasibility, Originality, Elaboration — feasibility refers to how practical or workable an idea is, not the ability to vary the approach or category of ideas produced, so this set is incorrect.

The set that names all four established components without substitution — the number of ideas produced, the variety of approaches used, the novelty of the ideas, and the depth to which an idea is developed — is Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration.

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