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CREATIVITY, VISUAL IMAGINATION AND SUGGESTIBILITY: THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN A GROUP OF 10‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN
Author(s) -
McHENRY R. E.,
SHOUKSMITH G. A.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1970.tb02115.x
Subject(s) - suggestibility , psychology , creativity , developmental psychology , social psychology
S ummary . An experiment is described in which 147 10‐year‐old children were tested for their creative ability. The same children were then placed in an experimental situation and exposed to peer suggestion. Results show that those children who were highly creative were very open to suggestion. Those measured high on visual imagination were not. It is concluded that by the nature of the creativity process itself, creative people are suggestible.