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What is creativity? How is it related to intelligence and how are creativity tests different from intelligence tests?

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Ans.     Creativity is the ability to think in different ways, to find causes and consequences, to connect ideas that otherwise may not seem like they can be connected.
Creativity is an ability to perform some activity with honesty/originality or differently.
Creativity correlates well with intelligence.
Creativity requires a minimum level of intelligence. Beyond that level, intelligence is not needed to ensure creativity.
According to the research conducted by Terman in the 1920's, which followed up gifted people throughout their adult lives, none of them were known, for creativity in their fields. Other researchers have also conducted researches in their field and have found that everybody has the potential to increase their level of creativity. It was also found that both high and low levels of creativity was found in intelligent children. The same was also found in children of average intelligence.
It is not necessary that intelligent people in the conventional sense, have a high level of creativity.
	Creativity Tests	Intelligence Tests
	Assess divergent thinking focussing on imagination is spontaneity using open ended questions.	Assess convergent thinking where focus on one specified right answer.
	Do not have any right or wrong answer.	Have right or wrong answers
	Try to measure your ability to think in various ways, to find causes and consequences, to connect ideas that may otherwise seem like they cannot be connected.	Try to measure intelligence that, according to the oxford dictionary is perceiving, learning, understanding and knowing.
	Some people have tried to develop creativity tests in various fields for eg: ipathematical creativity.
	EGS. of psychologists that have developed creativity tests: GUILFORD, •PASSI, • Mehdi	EGS. of psychologists who have developed intelligence tests: J.C. Raven