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Psychometric Evaluation of an Alternate Scoring for the Remote Associates Test
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Beisemann, Marie; Forthmann, Boris; Bürkner, Paul-Christian; Holling, Heinz – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
The Remote Associates Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962; Mednick & Mednick, 1967) is a commonly employed test of creative convergent thinking. The RAT is scored with a dichotomous scoring, scoring correct answers as 1 and all other answers as 0. Based on recent research into the information processing underlying RAT performance, we argued that the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Scoring, Tests, Semantics
Why Can People Effectively Access Remote Associations? Eye Movements during Chinese Remote Associates Problem Solving
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Wu, Ching-Lin; Peng, Shu-Ling; Chen, Hsueh-Chih – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
An increasing number of studies have explored the process of how subjects solve problems through remote association. Most research has investigated the relationship between an individual's response to semantic search during the think-aloud operation and the individual's reply performance. Few studies, however, have examined the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Association (Psychology), Creativity, Problem Solving
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
Multiply-Constrained Semantic Search in the Remote Associates Test
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Smith, Kevin A.; Huber, David E.; Vul, Edward – Cognition, 2013
Many important problems require consideration of multiple constraints, such as choosing a job based on salary, location, and responsibilities. We used the Remote Associates Test to study how people solve such multiply-constrained problems by asking participants to make guesses as they came to mind. We evaluated how people generated these guesses…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creativity Tests, Natural Language Processing, Cues
Assessing Associative Distance among Ideas Elicited by Tests of Divergent Thinking
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Acar, Selcuk; Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
Tests of divergent thinking represent the most commonly used assessment of creative potential. Typically they are scored for total ideational output (fluency), ideational originality, and, sometimes, ideational flexibility. That scoring system provides little information about the underlying process and about the associations among ideas. It also…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Correlation
Clue Insensitivity in Remote Associates Test Problem Solving
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Smith, Steven M.; Sifonis, Cynthia M.; Angello, Genna – Journal of Problem Solving, 2012
Does spreading activation from incidentally encountered hints cause incubation effects? We used Remote Associates Test (RAT) problems to examine effects of incidental clues on impasse resolution. When solution words were seen incidentally 3-sec before initially unsolved problems were retested, more problems were resolved (Experiment 1). When…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creative Thinking, Semantics, Creativity