Unit 6: Thinking, Intelligence & Creativity · 12 questions · about 14 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.
'Origence' is related to aspect of Personality?
Correct answer: A. Creativity
Welsh's 'origence' (with intellectence) is a personality dimension tied to creativity — preference for open, unstructured, imaginative activity.
Which one of the following is not a component of creativity according to Torrance?
Correct answer: D. Verification
Torrance scored fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, abstractness of titles and resistance to premature closure; verification is Wallas' creative stage.
Which of the following comes under divergent thinking ?
(A) Fluency
(B) Flexibility
(C) Elaboration
(D) Preparation
(E) Verification
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Correct answer: C. (A), (B), (C) only
Divergent thinking is assessed by fluency, flexibility and elaboration (and originality); preparation and verification are Wallas' stages.
Csikszentmihalyi (1996) observed that the creative process normally takes five steps. Arrange those steps in order ;
(A) Preparation
(B) Evaluation
(C) Incubation
(D) Elaboration
(E) Insight
Correct answer: C. A, C, E, B, D
Csikszentmihalyi's creative process: preparation → incubation → insight → evaluation → elaboration.
The 'Product' approach to creativity primarily focuses on
Correct answer: D. What is considered to be creative ?
The product approach judges creativity by the product — what is considered creative.
Projective measures, particularly inkblot tests, index which of the following?
Correct answer: D. General creative potential
Inkblot-type projective measures are treated as indicators of a person's general creative potential rather than domain-specific creative achievement.
Note: standard textbooks differ on this one — cross-check with NTA's final answer key.
Match List I with List II
Correct answer: A. (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
CAQ – Carson, Peterson & Higgins; RIBS – Runco; Preference for Active Divergence – Basadur; Consensual Assessment Technique – Amabile.
Who among the following is credited with proposing the investment theory of creativity?
Correct answer: D. Sternberg
The investment theory of creativity ('buy low, sell high') was proposed by Sternberg and Lubart.
According to Goddard (1910)'s study on residents of the Vineland facility and their categorization by diagnosis and mental age, the residents having the mental age of 3 to 7 years are termed as-
Correct answer: B. Imbeciles
Goddard's classification: idiots (MA below 3), imbeciles (MA 3–7) and morons/feeble-minded (MA 8–12).
What is meant by theory of mind?
A. People's idea about feelings perceptions and thoughts of self and others, and the behaviour these might predict
B. A term first coined by Daniel Goleman
C. People's ideas about their own and other's mental states
D. By the age of six months, children worldwide display an advanced level of theory of mind acquisition
E. People with autism are said to have an impaired theory of mind.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Correct answer: B. A, C, E only
Theory of mind is understanding one's own and others' mental states to predict behaviour, and it is impaired in autism; it develops around age 4.
Which approach focussed on the nature of a task and its influence on a person's ability in solving problems?
Correct answer: B. Information processing approach
The information-processing approach (Newell & Simon) analyses the task environment and how the task's structure shapes problem-solving performance.
Which of the following are comprised in executive functions?
A. Planning
B. Attention
C. Set shifting
D. Declarative memory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct answer: A. A, B and C only
Executive functions include planning, attentional control and set shifting (cognitive flexibility); declarative memory is not one.
