Chapter 7: Excellence, Aesthetics, Creativity, and Genius

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Creativity in one domain is very strongly correlated with creativity in a different domain.

B. Multiple studies examining creative solutions to problems have found a lack of consensus among raters as to which solutions were creative and which were not.

C. Highly creative people are more intelligent (e.g., they score higher on standard IQ tests).

D. No single personality trait has overwhelmingly emerged from studies as the key to creativity.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Creative Person

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. ______ refers to the combination of passion and persistence.

A. Expertise

B. Grit

C. Deliberate practice

D. Resonance

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Grit

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Although grit predicts SAT scores, it fails to predict ______.

A. retention of first year cadets at West Point Academy

B. IQ

C. creativity

D. academic performance

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Grit

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which of the following would be considered an obsessive passion?

A. quilting

B. painting

C. photography

D. gambling

Cognitive Domain: Conceptual

Answer Location: Passion

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Which of the following regarding the two passions described by Vallerand and colleagues is FALSE?

A. Harmonious passion is reliably associated with greater well-being.

B.Greater obsessive passion is related to more frequent flow experiences.

C.Obsessive passion results from feelings of being controlled and may create conflicts within one’s identity and life.

D. Those with an obsessive passion tended to ruminate more about their passion while they were occupied in another activity.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Passion

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Yolanda loves ballet and practices for hours every day. Her dream is to become a principal ballerina like her idol Misty Copeland. According to Duckworth, self-disciplined people such as Yolanda with a combination of persistence and passion toward their goals are high in ______.

A. grit

B. excellence

C. quotidian living

D. aesthetic ability

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Grit

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. ______ believed that our emotional responses to certain forms and images might be the result of innate responses from a deep collective unconscious.

A. Sigmund Freud

B. Carl Jung

C. Rollo May

D. Carl Rogers

Cognitive Domain: Conceptual

Answer Location: Origins of the Aesthetic Sense

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Recent research showed that listening to music, or even anticipating a favorite musical passage, can stimulate ______ release and activate regions of the brain involved in the experience of pleasure.

A. serotonin

B. cortisol

C. dopamine

D. acetylcholine

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Music and the Brain

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Which of the following is FALSE?

A. The benefits of music have been found for children and adults.

B. Listening to death metal or black metal music is cathartic and lowers feelings of violence and despair by providing a safe environment for the expression of these emotions.

C. Research has shown that music can lead to increased brain size, specifically the band of nerve fibers that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

D. Music can be used to enhance health as well as psychological well-being.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Music and Well-Being

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. ______ is/are one of the most frequently mentioned strategies people use to induce moods. Research has shown that is may be the most effective way to induce certain moods.

A. Music

B. Painting and drawing

C. Theater/acting

D. Dance

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Music and Well-Being

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. The ______ began in the 19th century and used art to shake up the bourgeoisie who were criticized as demanding conformity rather than creativity.

A. the hippie movement

B. the renaissance

C. the Mozart movement

D. the avant-garde movement

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Challenge

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The term ______ comes from the ancient romans who used the term to describe a guardian spirit.

A. aesthetics

B. genius

C. the “Sylvia Plath Effect”

D. the “savannah hypothesis”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Genius

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Croom (2015) used Seligman’s PERMA model to explain ______.

A. the impact of music on happiness

B. the role of mental illness in genius

C. the role of grit in attaining success

D. the origins of the aesthetic sense

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Music and Well-Being

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Steve Jobs embodies the definition of ______ because his involvement in the development of Apple products, especially the Iphone, had a major impact on society.

A. Big-C creativity

B.little-c creativity

C. the illumination stag

D. emotional creativity

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Little-c and Big-C Creativity

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. According to Simonton (2009), ______ refers to creativity that enhances life by finding unique solutions to problems, but the solutions are not necessarily groundbreaking innovations.

A. big-C creativity

B. little-c creativity

C. nontranformative creativity

D. an interval measure of creativity

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Little-c and Big-C Creativity

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Which of the following traits do creative people tend to share?

A. openness to experience

B. extraversion

C. agreeableness

D. neuroticism

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Creative Person

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. A measure of ______ might ask someone to generate as many uses as possible for a paper clip.

A. intrinsic motivation

B. divergent thinking

C. convergent thinking

D. grit

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Creative Process

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. An individual exhibiting ______ may modify a recipe when cooking or figure out how to fix a broken zipper using common household items.

A. passion

B. little-c creativity

C. Big-c creativity

D. pro-C creativity

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Little-c and Big-C Creativity

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Marc Runco noted that four research traditions dominate studies of creativity: Person, process, press, and product. Press referred to ______.

A. the emergence of a creative solution rapidly and unexpectedly, culminating in widespread popularity

B. a creative solution resulting from an unconscious level of processing

C. the degree of subjectivity in the domain or field

D. the environmental influences that may help or hinder creativity

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Research Perspectives on Creativity

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Wallas (1926) proposed four stages of the creative process: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification, based on the assumption that ______.

A. they are innate

B. they stem from above average levels of intellectual abilities

C. they are connected to unconscious or preconscious processes

D. they are part of a spiritual awakening

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Four Stages of the Creative Process

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. A person’s expertise is almost always specific to a single domain.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Foundations of Excellence

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Those who achieve a high level of excellence tend to keep practice to a specific amount of time: about 2 hr per day.

Cognitive Domain: knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Excellence

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Research has shown that it takes at least twenty years of dedicated, consistent practice before a person attains a high level of excellence.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Excellence

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Obsessive passion and harmonious passion are reliably associated with greater well-being.

Cognitive Domain: Conceptual

Answer Location: Passion

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Grit was a better predictor of academic performance than both IQ and SAT scores.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Grit

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Define grit and discuss at least one recent research finding.

Cognitive Domain: Conceptual

Answer Location: Grit

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Describe a person that experiences harmonious passion and one that experiences obsessive passion.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Passion

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Describe a person who depicts little-c and Big-C creativity. Include the definition in your rationale for how this person exemplifies each.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Little-c and Big-C Creativity

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. When it comes to creativity, which of the following has been shown to be more influential: nature or nurture? Explain using research to back up your claim.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Creative Environments or Press

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. There have been many studies on creativity. Discuss at least two of the four research traditions that dominate the study of creativity as outlined by Runco (2004).

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Research Perspectives on Creativity

Difficulty Level: Medium