Repeated Presentation of Stimuli and Production of Original Responses

Abstract

An analysis of the responses of 50 junior and senior men and women in undergraduate educational psychology classes using alternate forms of Onomatopoeia and Images as tests of originality and of 27 graduate students in a seminar on creative behavior using Form I of Sounds and Images and Form I of Onomatopoeia and Images shows increasing originality with each repetition of the stimuli. The break away from perceptual set for the production of original responses seems to be effective in both instances and the results support the present mode of presentation of Onomatopoeia and Images and Sounds and Images. Results also support the idea that original thought requires considerable effort.