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Developing Creativity in Adolescents — Practice

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Q1. Creativity is best described as the ability to
- A. Repeat known facts accurately in an examination.
- B. Give novel responses, new answers and establish new relationships.
- C. Imitate the work of established artists faithfully.
- D. Memorise large amounts of information quickly.
Q2. The opposite of creativity is
- A. Recalling
- B. Recognising
- C. Repetition
- D. Imitation
Q3. Check Your Progress 1 asks: which of these is most highly connected to creativity?
- A. Submissiveness
- B. Talkativeness
- C. Originality
- D. Impulsiveness
Q4. A Class 7 student in Rampur writes a Haiku poem in Hindi. This is an example of
- A. Non-verbal creativity
- B. Verbal creativity
- C. Theoretical creativity
- D. Practical creativity
Q5. Aarti, a Class 8 student, makes a rangoli with rice flour on Diwali. Her work falls under
- A. Verbal creativity
- B. Non-verbal creativity
- C. Convergent creativity
- D. Imitative creativity
Q6. The steps in creative thinking in this order
- A. Flash, preparation, incubation, attention, verification
- B. Preparation, concentrated attention, withdrawal (incubation), flash, verification
- C. Verification, flash, attention, incubation, preparation
- D. Attention, preparation, verification, incubation, flash
Q7. How many steps of creative thinking are listed?
- A. Four
- B. Five
- C. Three
- D. Two
Q8. Archimedes left the king's problem and went for a bath. This stage of creative thinking is called
- A. Preparation
- B. Concentrated attention
- C. Withdrawal from the problem (incubation)
- D. Verification
Q9. The four approaches to study creativity are mnemonically called the
- A. 4 P approach
- B. 4 B approach
- C. 4 A approach
- D. 4 C approach
Q10. Between heredity and environment, which one plays a major role in shaping a child's creativity?
- A. Heredity, because creativity is largely an inborn ability.
- B. Environment, including parents, teachers, textbooks, exams and school climate.
- C. Both equally, with no measurable difference.
- D. Neither — creativity depends only on intelligence.
Q11. Brainstorming, as a technique for developing creativity, was developed by
- A. Covington
- B. Crutchfield
- C. Alex Osborn
- D. Cropley
Q12. In Osborn's brainstorming technique, thinking is divided into
- A. One single continuous stage of evaluation
- B. Two stages — ideation stage and evaluation stage
- C. Three stages — observation, ideation, criticism
- D. Four stages — preparation, incubation, flash, verification
Q13. Teachers who wish to develop the creativity of their students must learn to
- A. Displease the students
- B. Displease the authorities
- C. Tolerate the disciplined
- D. Tolerate disorder
Q14. The ability to think of a large number of responses is called
- A. Fluency
- B. Flexibility
- C. Originality
- D. Elaboration
Q15. The first researchers to develop tests of creativity in India were
- A. Guilford and Torrance
- B. Baqer Mehdi and B.K. Passi
- C. Aurobindo and Tagore
- D. Cropley and Khatena

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