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PROCEDURES TO INCREASE SOME ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY
Author(s) -
Glover John,
Gary A. L.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1976.9-79
Subject(s) - fluency , creativity , psychology , originality , elaboration , flexibility (engineering) , reinforcement , torrance tests of creative thinking , mathematics education , verb , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , statistics , artificial intelligence , humanities , mathematics , computer science , philosophy
Instructions, reinforcement (team points), and practice were applied to four behaviorally defined creative behaviors of eight fourth‐ and fifth‐grade students. All four aspects (number of different responses, fluency; number of verb forms, flexibility; number of words per response, elaboration; and statistical infrequency of response forms, originality) were demonstrated to be under experimental control. The procedures also raised students' scores on Torrance's tests of creativity. Application of the experimental procedures may well be practical for classroom teachers.