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Cognitive Component Analysis Comparing Three Chinese Remote Associates Tests: Linear Logistic Latent Trait Model Approach
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Hung, Su-Pin; Wu, Ching-Lin – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
The Remote Associates Test, generally used in creativity research, has Chinese versions for the three levels of "radical-word-vocabulary." However, research has not been conducted on the influence of the item components on the difficulties among these Chinese Remote Associates Tests (CRATs). The present study selected six item components…
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Chinese, Test Items, Difficulty Level
Modeling the Remote Associates Test as Retrievals from Semantic Memory
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Schatz, Jule; Jones, Steven J.; Laird, John E. – Cognitive Science, 2022
The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a word association retrieval task that consists of a series of problems, each with three seemingly unrelated prompt words. The subject is asked to produce a single word that is related to all three prompt words. In this paper, we provide support for a theory in which the RAT assesses a person's ability to…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Recall (Psychology), Long Term Memory
The Impact of Adding a Fourth Item to the Traditional 3-Item Remote Associates Test
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Jose A. Diaz; Steven M. Nelson; A. Alexander Beaujean; Adam E. Green; Michael K. Scullin – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The compound Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a classic measure of creativity. Participants are shown three cue words (sore-shoulder-sweat) and asked to generate a word that connects them (cold). Theoretical views of RAT performance differ in the degree to which they conceptualize performance as depending on automatic spreading activation across…
Descriptors: Test Items, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Performance
Cognitive Complexity in the Remote Association Test--Chinese Version
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Hung, Su-Pin; Huang, Po-Sheng; Chen, Hsueh-Chih – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
The remote association test (RAT) has been applied in various fields; however, evidence of construct validity for the original version and subsequent extensions of the RAT remains limited. This study aimed to elucidate the dimensionality and the relationship between item features and item difficulties for the RAT--Chinese Version (RAT-C) using the…
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Item Response Theory
The Usual and the Unusual: Solving Remote Associates Test Tasks Using Simple Statistical Natural Language Processing Based on Language Use
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Klein, Ariel; Badia, Toni – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2015
In this study we show how complex creative relations can arise from fairly frequent semantic relations observed in everyday language. By doing this, we reflect on some key cognitive aspects of linguistic and general creativity. In our experimentation, we automated the process of solving a battery of Remote Associates Test tasks. By applying…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Semantics, Natural Language Processing, Test Items
Situative Creativity: Larger Physical Spaces Facilitate Thinking of Novel Uses for Everyday Objects
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Chan, Joel; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2016
People often use spatial metaphors (e.g., think "laterally," "outside the box") to describe exploration of the problem space during creative problem solving. In this paper, we probe the potential cognitive underpinnings of these spatial metaphors. Drawing on theories of situative cognition, semantic foraging theory, and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Physical Environment, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Creative Thinking