Proposal of Color Queue Creation Task for Automatic Divergent Thinking Evaluation

Abstract

In recent years, with the advent of the information society, creativity is becoming more and more important, and divergent thinking is becoming more and more important. The Alternative Uses Test (AUT) is the most used test for evaluating divergent thinking. However, its result is affected by difference in native languages, since the evaluation is dependent on a person who evaluates. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to devise a new task to evaluate divergent thinking that solves on the problems of the AUT. This task focuses on the evaluation of flexibility which is evaluated by how much varieties of color sequence are in a color queue consisting of 100 color sequence. This is devised as a non-verbal task and expected to avoid the influence of language differences. An experiment was conducted to see if flexibility was affected by cognitive load as assessed by the created task. The results suggested the possibility that the effect of cognitive load on flexibility can be evaluated.

Keywords: Divergent Thinking, AUT, Flexibility

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1004719