Creative thinking and creative performance in Israeli students.

Administered the Wallach and Kogan creativity test battery, a self-report questionnaire of creative activities, and the Milta Intelligence Scale, a group intelligence test, to 145 Israeli high school seniors. Creative activity was related to creative thinking, but not to intelligence or school grades. The quantity and quality dimensions of creative activity were as highly related as the dimensions of ideational fluency and rare or unusual responses in creative thinking. Findings support the intelligence-creativity distinction and extend the theoretical position that quantity is a necessary condition for the emergence of unusual responses in creative thinking to the realm of creative performance as well. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)