Information Processing Approaches Among Creative Students

Summary To investigate information processing strategies employed by creative and noncreative Ss, the Unusual Uses test, a reading comprehension test, and an essay posttest were administered to 84 male and female undergraduate volunteers, who then wrote SO-word summary and “flight of fancy” passages on the essay contents. No differences were obtained for either reading test or essay comprehension; however, analyses of passage structure and theme characteristics showed a greater number of logical intrusions and fewer incorrect intrusions for creative than for noncreative S s. Results seemed to indicate relatively pronounced qualitative differences in information processing approaches.