How brain rhythms can reveal your personality Like a game of Go, the task is easy to do, but a real challenge. It encourages freedom of thought rather than beating it out of people through hours of problem-solving. The benefit of the DAT is that it’s easy to use, efficient and usually fun for people to do. The manipulation and use of this semantic (or word) space is an effective way to measure divergent thinking and, in turn, creative potential this is the basis for several of the standard tasks used in creativity research. Experimental studies of creativity have used a range of measures to quantify the thought processes at work. He wondered whether a similar task could serve as a simple and elegant way to explore a person’s internal psychological space of word-meaning, their internal thesaurus, and find its boundaries. The DAT was originally devised by Dr Jay Olson, inspired by a childhood game involving thinking of unrelated ideas. The novel DAT measurement, which has the potential to measure divergent thinking and creative potential effectively and efficiently, was the focus of our research. The Aha Challenge aimed to examine these measures broadly across a wide demographic to complement our existing very detailed, yet relatively narrow, experimental program. There are many personal accounts of creativity from those experiencing and creating, but one thing that seems to stand out is how personal that process is to the creator.Įxperimental studies of problem-solving and creativity have used a wide range of measures to try and quantify the underlying thought processes at work and find some commonality, but often these measures, by their very nature, suppress the freedom of thought likely to be conducive to creative output. While studies of creativity and its nature are not new, relatively little is known about the process itself either in terms of its mechanisms or management. Creativity has two main components - convergent thinking and divergent thinking. Convergent thinking means solving problems considering various constraints, and divergent thinking means generating novel and diverse solutions. Psychologically, creativity has two main components - convergent thinking and divergent thinking - which work together when a person generates creative output. We found that simply asking people to name unrelated words can be a reliable measure of creativity. Our study, an international collaboration between researchers at the universities of Melbourne, Harvard and McGill was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It aimed to establish a fast and effective new way of measuring problem-solving ability and creative potential.Īround 15,000 people of all ages took part in the challenge, mostly Australians but also people from more than 100 other countries around the world, in all walks of life.
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The challenge posed a series of brainteasers involving words, symbols, images and logic, then asked for each person’s feelings about their response. And in August 2019, as part of National Science Week and in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, we launched and ran The Aha Challenge. The DAT was a key part of our first-of-its-kind, large-scale citizen science project which aimed to examine people’s feeling of insight or their ‘aha’ moment. The project aimed to establish a new way of measuring problem-solving ability and creative potential.
This is the Divergent Association Task (or DAT, in the acronym-loving world) which is used to measure a person’s creative thinking and potential.
Can you give me three nouns that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four? Five? How about ten? And can you do it in a few minutes?
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