AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Designed by J.P. Guilford in 1967, the Alternative Uses Test asks you to think of as many uses as possible for a simple object, like a brick or a shoe or a paperclip. The test is usually time-constrained. Practicing this widely used divergent thinking test will help you develop your ability to think creatively.

Detailed explanation-2: -Creativity tests measure specific cognitive processes such as thinking divergently, making associations, constructing and combining broad categories, or working on many ideas simultaneously.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the Alternative Uses Task (AUT), developed by Torrance [21], the participant is asked to generate as many alternative uses as possible for a common object such as a pen, a brick, or a paperclip. For instance, alternative uses for a brick could include a bed riser, a place mat, or a weapon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alternate Uses (also known as Guilford’s Alternate Uses) is a revised and improved form of the test Unusual Uses, which was originally designed (Wilson, Guilford, Christensen & Lewis, 1954) to represent an expected factor of “flexibility of thinking” in an investigation of creative thinking.