High and Low Imagers and Their Scores on Creativity

Abstract

We studied the relation between vividness of imagery and four aspects of creativity, fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. We studied too the difference in creativity of high and low imagers. We obtained for 122 children (69 boys and 53 girls) significant, but low correlations, between imagery vividness and creativity for girls (fluency = .30, flexibility = .32, originality = .24, elaboration = .33) and in the total group (fluency = .24, flexibility = .23, originality = .14, elaboration = .21), but not for boys (fluency = .13, flexibility = .09, originality = .02, elaboration = .11). Differences between high ( n = 35) and low ( n = 45) imagers in creativity were significant.