"Creativity is a mental process to express the original outcomes." This…

Concept: Pedagogy items that ask “This statement is given by ___” test exact attribution: several educational psychologists proposed distinct, verbatim definitions of creativity, each highlighting a different angle — the mental process of generating ideas, the novelty of the product, or the production of useful outcomes. The exam expects the specific scholar-name paired with the specific wording, not just familiarity with the general topic of creativity.

Application: The stem's wording — creativity as “a mental process to express the original outcomes” — is the standard definition given by Crow and Crow (Lester D. Crow and Alice Crow) in their widely used text on educational psychology. It frames creativity strictly as an internal, mental activity whose result is an original outcome or expression, which is exactly the phrasing tested here.

Why the other names don't fit:

• Cole and Bruce — not credited with this definition in standard educational-psychology references; this pairing does not correspond to any well-documented creativity definition worded this way.

• Drevahal (Drevdahl) — associated with a different, product/novelty-centred framing of creativity (an idea or composition being new and previously unknown to its producer), not this stem's “mental process to express” framing.

• Dehan (DeHaan) — typically linked to problem-solving and the production of useful, adaptive outcomes, again a different emphasis from this stem's specific wording.

Cross-check: Because the stem is a verbatim quotation, the fastest cross-check is matching the EXACT phrase “mental process to express the original outcomes” to its source rather than reasoning about creativity in the abstract — this phrase is uniquely traceable to Crow and Crow in exam-prep and educational-psychology references.