One-Year-Olds Think Creatively, Just Like Their Parents

• Autores: Elena Hoicka, Rachael Mowat, Joanne Kirkwood, Tiffany Kerr, Megan Carberry, Simone Bijvoet-van den Berg
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 87, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 1099-1105
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Creativity is an essential human ability, allowing adaptation and survival. Twenty-nine 1-year-olds and their parents were tested on divergent thinking (DT), a measure of creative potential counting how many ideas one can generate. Toddlers' and parents' DT was moderately to highly correlated. Toddlers showed a wide range of DT scores, which were reliable on retesting. This is the first study to show children think divergently as early as 1 year. This research also suggests 1-year-olds' DT is related to parents', opening up future research into whether this relationship is due to genetics and/or social learning at its emergence. Understanding DT at its emergence could allow for interventions while neurological development is most plastic, which could improve DT across the life span.