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Portland State University

1979

Creative ability -- Testing

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The Bender-Gestalt Test As A Measure Of Creative Production, Craig Logan House May 1979

The Bender-Gestalt Test As A Measure Of Creative Production, Craig Logan House

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This study attempted to define creativity in terms of objective, visible products of behavior. An existing psychological instrument, the Bender-Gestalt Test (BGT) was modified in presentation and scoring methods into a test of creative production. This test was chosen because of its similarity to some existing tests of creative production and its theoretical relationship to the associative model of creative production. It was combined with the Making Objects Test (MO) and the Remote Associations Test (RAT) into a three test battery and administered to 90 college students. The three tests were scored and the results correlated with each other to …