期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology
电子版ISSN：1696-2095
出版年度：2017
卷号：15
期号：3
页码：574-597
DOI：10.14204/ejrep.43/16094
出版社：University of Almeria
摘要：Introduction. This work tackles the question about the nature of creativity as a general vs.domain-specific ability. First we deal with the concept of creativity and then, the main approachesto the debate of generality vs. specificity are exposedMethod. A total of 133 students attending 3rd grade of secondary education in Murcia Regiontook part in this research. The assessment instruments were the Torrance Test of CreativeThinking to assess general-figurative creativity and the Hu and Adey's Scientific-Creativethinking test to meassure scienific creativity. Also the Diferencial Aptitude Test was used tomeassure intelligence. The relationship between figurative-general creativity and scientificcreativity was studied from diferent statistical procedures: using correlation analysis, factorial,and using perceptual mapping.Results. The results point out to the independence between both figurative and scientific creativity;further more, we could talk about a task-specific creativity.Discussion or Conclusion. The debate about the generality vs domain specific creativity doeshave a great effect on the educational practice. Specifically regarding two issuees: a) the typeof assessment to identify the students' creative potential, thus deciding which students couldbe candidates to enter specific gifted and talented programs; b) regarding to how to teach andfoster divergent thinking and creativity in our students.
关键词：Specificity of creativity; Scientific creativity; Torrance test; Divergent thinking.
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