Practice

Developing Creativity in Children — Practice

15 questions 15 min Recall + understand

Q1. Creativity is best described as the ability to
- A. Memorise large amounts of information accurately
- B. Be innovative, give novel responses and establish new relationships
- C. Follow established norms and traditions without questioning
- D. Obtain the highest marks in school examinations
Q2. According to Davis, what percentage of five-year-old children are high creatives?
- A. 50%
- B. 70%
- C. 90%
- D. 100%
Q3. The opposite of creativity is
- A. Recalling
- B. Recognising
- C. Repetition
- D. Imitation
Q4. Creativity is divided into two types. Writing poems, stories and Haiku verses falls under
- A. Non-verbal creativity
- B. Verbal creativity
- C. Theoretical creativity
- D. Practical creativity
Q5. How many steps are there in creative thinking?
- A. 3
- B. 4
- C. 5
- D. 2
Q6. In the Archimedes example used to illustrate creative thinking, the step at which he saw the water spilling out and shouted 'Eureka' is called
- A. Preparation
- B. Incubation
- C. Flash
- D. Verification
Q7. The four approaches to study creativity, called the 4 P's, are
- A. Product, Process, Person, Press (situation)
- B. Practice, Patience, Persistence, Praise
- C. Play, Performance, Perception, Personality
- D. Painting, Poetry, Pottery, Programming
Q8. Between heredity and environment, the major role in shaping creativity is played by
- A. Heredity, because most creative people are born creative
- B. The environment — parents, teachers, textbooks and school climate
- C. Heredity and environment in exactly equal measure
- D. Neither — creativity is fixed at birth and cannot be influenced
Q9. The technique of brainstorming was developed by
- A. Covington
- B. Crutchfield
- C. Alex Osborn
- D. Cropley
Q10. Osborn divided brainstorming thinking into two stages. They are
- A. Ideation stage and Evaluation stage
- B. Writing stage and Reading stage
- C. Preparation stage and Verification stage
- D. Memorisation stage and Recall stage
Q11. One of Osborn's four ideation-stage principles in brainstorming is 'Quality breeds quality'. This means
- A. Only high-quality ideas should be allowed; weak ideas should be rejected at once
- B. The greater the number of ideas produced, the higher the chances of good ideas appearing
- C. Quality work cannot be done in a group; only individuals produce quality
- D. Quality of facilitator decides quality of ideas
Q12. A primary teacher in Rampur asks her Class 5 children, 'If you became an ant suddenly, what would you do?' This is an example of which type of creativity-fostering question?
- A. Redefining question
- B. Hypothetical question
- C. Consequences question
- D. Provocative question
Q13. A teacher who wishes to develop creativity in her students must
- A. Displease the students
- B. Displease the authorities
- C. Tolerate discipline strictly
- D. Tolerate disorder in the classroom
Q14. In the Guilford-Torrance components of creativity, the ability to think of a large number of responses is called
- A. Flexibility
- B. Fluency
- C. Originality
- D. Persistency
Q15. The first researchers in India to develop creativity tests were
- A. Guilford and Terman
- B. Torrance and Terman
- C. Guilford and Cattell
- D. Baqer Mehdi and B. K. Passi

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