A Visual Remote Associates Test and Its Validation

Olteteanu, Ana-Maria; Zunjani, Faheem Hassan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00026

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“…Another direction of future work would be to establish a creative association measure that transcends the constraints of language such as a visual Remote Associates Test—some work in this direction has already been done by Olteţeanu et al ( 2015 ) and Toivainen et al ( 2019 ). As one of our reviewers very interestingly points out, visual information, though not as varied as language, nonetheless varies in different cultures.…”

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Are All Remote Associates Tests Equal? An Overview of the Remote Associates Test in Different Languages

Behrens

Olteteanu

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The Remote Associates Test (RAT, CRA) is a classic creativity test used to measure creativity as a function of associative ability. The RAT has been administered in various different languages. Nonetheless, because of how embedded in language the test is, only a few items are directly translatable, and most of the time, the RAT is created a new in each language. This process of manual (and in two cases, computational) creation of RAT items is guided by the researchers' understanding of the task. This paper focuses on the question of whether RAT datasets administered in different languages within the literature are comparable. To answer this question, datasets acquired using different RAT stimuli are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Kruskal-Wallis tests are conducted to find out whether there is a significant difference between any of the datasets for a given time frame. Pairwise Mann-Whitney post-hoc tests are then used to find out which pairs are different. Significant differences are observed between 18 dataset pairings regarding Accuracy and between 16 in terms of Response Time. The potential sources of these differences are discussed, together with what this means for creativity psychometrics and computational vs. manual creation of stimuli.

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Are All Remote Associates Tests Equal? An Overview of the Remote Associates Test in Different Languages

Behrens

Olteteanu

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…The final 12 th order sequence patterns contain 2 sets of 12 patterns in which all patterns in the set contain either two addition or two multiplication operations. If we would calculate ∑ i= [1,2,4,8,12] i × P n s i {O} for n = 3 and O = {+, −, ×, ÷} we find that P 3…”

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“…As these two concepts are considered paramount to the creative thinking process, it should not come as a surprise that well-known tasks of creative thinking focus on these two processes. Notable tasks used for measuring creative thinking, such as the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking [5] (TTCT), the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Test [6] (WKCT), and Guilford's Alternative Uses Task [4](AUT), focus on divergent thinking, whereas the visual and classic Remote Associations Tasks [7,8](RAT) aim to measure associative skills, convergent thinking and insight [9][10][11][12]. The more recently introduced Evaluation of Potential Creativity [13][14][15] (EPoC) battery, includes measures of both divergent and convergent thinking with graphic, numeric and verbal items.…”

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Creative Mathematical Thinking in a Numbers Game

Kruis¹,

Stevenson²,

Maas³

2020

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Creative thinking is increasingly recognised as an essential ability that should be part of school curricula. Given the move towards online learning and assessment, we investigate whether mathematical creativity can be assessed at-scale in the Numbers game, an arithmetic game in Math Garden, a popular online math practice platform. In the Numbers game, a generalisation of the 24 Game, children are asked to figure out how to compute a target number using basic arithmetic operations and a given set of numbers. We argue that creative thinking is required when the search space is complex, and propose that the base-pattern, i.e., the sequence of the operations needed to solve a Numbers game item, indicates search space complexity. We then demonstrate that items with disordered base-patterns are more likely to require mathematical creativity to figure out. Specifically, our analysis shows that for items with only one solution sequence, those with disordered base-patterns are more difficult and take longer to solve compared to items with ordered base-patterns. For items where multiple solution sequences are possible, nine times out of ten children choose ordered over disordered base-patterns. We conclude that the Numbers game has potential for assessing mathematical creativity at-scale.

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“…Instead of computationally solving the RAT, like the comRAT-C system, this paper focuses on generating functional RAT queries computationally. In previous work, the manual construction of visual RAT queries has been attempted, to provide a cross-modal perspective on the RAT [11]. In terms of linguistic queries, computational query generation has been shown to be both successful [27] and useful for the design of experiments with a higher degree of control [36].…”

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“…The Remote Associates Test [10] -RAT for short -aims to measure a participant's creativity as their ability to make associations. The RAT is normally given using linguistic stimuli, though visual stimuli have also been developed [11]. A Remote Associates Test item is administered as follows: three words are given, and the participant is asked to come up with a fourth word which is related to all the three given words.…”

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Computationally resurrecting the functional Remote Associates Test using cognitive word associates and principles from a computational solver

Olteteanu

Schöttner

Schuberth

2019

Knowledge-Based Systems

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Human creativity is usually assessed with a variety of established creativity tests. One of this is the Remote Associates Test (RAT), which aims to measure the ability of reaching remote associates with linguistic stimuli. A well known variant of the RAT exists-the compound RAT, for which normative data and solvers have been proposed in the literature. However, a different type of RAT was proposed in 1971 by Worthen and Clark-a functional form which had the potential of measuring other types of associations. However, the few test items proposed by Worthen and Clark where lost during archive transport, and cannot be accessed. In this paper, we set to reconstruct an ample set of functional items in the spirit of Worthen and Clark's idea, using information science techniques. Cognitive word associates are used as data. The process of a former computational solver of the RAT is repurposed to create rather than solve items. The approach of constructing queries is evaluated by getting human participants to solve both functional and compound items. In the process, a

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A Visual Remote Associates Test and Its Validation

Cited by 19 publications

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Are All Remote Associates Tests Equal? An Overview of the Remote Associates Test in Different Languages

Are All Remote Associates Tests Equal? An Overview of the Remote Associates Test in Different Languages

Creative Mathematical Thinking in a Numbers Game

Computationally resurrecting the functional Remote Associates Test using cognitive word associates and principles from a computational solver

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