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The aim was to study a new scoring procedure for the CREA Test, complementary to the traditional, that considers the originality of the productions. The new procedure and corresponding analyzes were defined for three groups (children, adolescents and adults) and for the three stimuli of the CREA. The sample included 505 participants (188 children, 108 adolescents and 209 adults) living in Cordoba, Argentina. The new procedure included three categories of questions: very frequent, frequent and unique, each categories had different scoring. A descriptive analysis of typologies and a correlational analysis of the scores were performed according to the two procedures. Also, the paper presented a case study of people asking unique questions. The results showed very high consistency of measurements and correlations between two procedures for the three groups and the three stimuli. There were significant associations between the levels of creativity defined by both procedures. The unique questions represented between 1 and 4% of the total, stimulus A is the one that most promotes the formulation of unique questions. The authors proposed to use of the alternative system in groups that obtain low scores with the traditional system and when a differential analysis of the originality is required. Authors discussed theoretically relations between quantity and originality and proposed future lines of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thought styles have been traditionally classified as convergent or logical, and divergent or no-structured. The case of these two opposite thought styles in the design activity is studied in the present paper, with the aim of analyse their influence in the level of design creative ideas. A practical experience has been carried out, in which subjects that present a thinking style strongly logical or strongly non-structured have been selected from a group of designers. These subjects have been required to solve a design problem by using a lateral thinking design method, with the aim to determine which of these thought styles provides with better creative outcomes. Results show the values of creativity of the solutions presented by the two groups. They are analyzed by means of the AHP with ratings technique. The conclusion of the experiment is that both individuals with logical and non-structured thinking style have generated ideas with similar creative level. So, this work demonstrates in a practical way the theorization of Kirton (1978), who defended that individuals of both typologies, logic and no structured, present the same creative potential. So, the importance falls on the method and not on the individual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]