Procedures to increase some aspects of creativity.
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.
D002648:Child; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012057:Reinforcement, Verbal; D012718:Set, Psychology; D014825:Vocabulary