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Intra‐individual variability in divergent thinking in response to audio, visual, and tactile stimuli
Author(s) -
Jaquish Gail A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1983.tb01879.x
Subject(s) - psychology , divergent thinking , fluency , cognitive psychology , originality , creativity , stimulus modality , task (project management) , modality (human–computer interaction) , flexibility (engineering) , auditory stimuli , perception , sensory system , social psychology , neuroscience , statistics , mathematics education , mathematics , management , human–computer interaction , computer science , economics
This study explored intra‐individual variability in divergent thinking (fluency, flexibility, and originality) in response to audio, visual, and tactile stimuli. Forty‐four participants responded to three divergent thinking tasks. The divergent thinking assessors were structurally similar (i.e. duration of task, amount of stimuli presented, time allowed for responding), but differed in that one was based on auditory stimuli, a second used visual stimuli, and the third required participants to respond to tactile stimuli. A within‐subjects repeated measures research design was used; task treatment order was counterbalanced across subjects. A principal components factor analysis with oblique rotation distinguished three divergent thinking factors defined by sensory modality response preferences. Within‐individual differences in level of originality appeared as a function of the kind of stimuli which served to evoke divergent thinking. Results are discussed in the light of the need for discriminating the dimensionality of creativity as a construct.