What Is Creative Potential And Creative Achievement?

Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. This is one of the many definitions of intelligence, everyone has a different opinion on what intelligence actually is. In Western cultures, it is crucial to have excellent mental abilities which can contribute to doing better in higher level jobs and schools. This in fact can be applicable as individuals with good mental skills do better in school and jobs. However, if we view intelligence in a wider perspective we can see that it is a socially established notion.

People can differ in relation to their learning abilities and methods, does that necessarily mean that some people are more intelligent than others? If so can these differences be

Creative potential is the ability to create something novel and valuable, whereas creative achievement is accomplishing something real like discovering something scientific. Creative potential can be measures by tests that measure thinking processes (Runco 2010), for example the Torrance test of Creativity. Divergent thinking can be defined as ‘the kind that goes off to different directions’ (Guilford 1959 p381). Divergent thinking tests can include open thinking questions that lead to different solutions. Whereas creative achievement can be assessed by self-reports such as biographical questionnaires where participants state their achievements throughout diverse situations (music, art). For example, the Creative Achievement Questionnaire (Carson et al, 2005). This questionnaire and other related measures were able to find a relationship between intelligence and creativity and it is suggested that CAQ could predict intelligence levels. In addition, meta-analytic findings show that there is in fact a correlation between creative potential and intelligence and it is usually around