Productivity and uniqueness in continued word association as a function of subject creativity and stimulus properties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19280658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen V Piers (Pennsylvania State University), Elizabeth P Kirchner (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 264-276 |
| Publication date | 1971-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1971.tb00041.x |
| PMID | 5581827 |
| OpenAlex | W1995424453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
S ummary Ninety‐six male and 44 female college students gave written continued associations for 2 minutes to each of 24 stimulus words and then completed the Remote Associates Test and the Revised Art Scale No significant relationship was found between the creativity measures for either sex Few relationships, differing for males and females, were found between the creativity measures and associative productivity or uniqueness Productivity and uniqueness were found to be substantially related, and common responses occurred earlier in time than unique responses The properties of the stimulus words (frequency, form class, and slope of associative hierarchy) had marked effects on response productivity and uniqueness The study confirms the strong impact of stimulus properties on associative productivity and demonstrates similar effects on uniqueness The creativity data, yielding weaker and less consistent relationships, are in keeping with a specificity theory but lend only limited support to Mednick's associative hypotheses
Association (psychology) · Associative property · Cognitive psychology · Creativity · Psychoanalysis · Pure mathematics · Stimulus (psychology) · Uniqueness · Word Association · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Mathematics · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2023 (51) |
| Highly cited | No |