Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning Preschool Through Fourth Grade, 7e Joan Packer Isenberg (Test Bank
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Creative Thinking & Arts-Based Learning 7e (Isenberg/Jalongo)
Chapter 1 Understanding Children's Creative Thought and Expression
1) Children are creative when they:
A) answer all questions correctly
B) express themselves in inventive, symbolic ways
C) recognize words and symbols at an early age
D) speak fluently by the age of two
E) copy teacher's actions
Answer: B
2) Sternberg's (2008) triarchic theory of intelligence, defines creative thought as the ability to:
A) generate ideas
B) analyze which ideas are worth pursuing
C) implement ideas
D) convince others of the value or our ideas
Answer: A
3) Which classical theorist contended that learning is fundamentally cultural and interactive in
nature?
A) Alfred Adler
B) Carl Jung
C) Jean Piaget
D) Lev Vygotsky
E) Abraham Maslow
Answer: D
4) Contemporary experts view creativity as a ________ constructed trait.
A) culturally
B) cognitively
C) personally
D) socially
E) theoretically
Answer: D
5) Cognitive dimensions of creativity include the following except:
A) fluency
B) flexibility/adaptability
C) curiosity
D) originality
E) elaboration
Answer: C
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6) A mistake commonly made by teachers of young children is:
A) being overly influenced by socially desirable behavior
B) confusing measures of intelligence with measures of creativity
C) being overly influenced by the child's rate of development
D) all of these
E) none of these
Answer: D
7) Which of the following types of activities stimulate creative thought?
A) Coloring in pre-printed pages
B) Inventing a robot puppet from recycled materials
C) Reading a book about a topic related to history
D) Drawing a picture from a teacher's model
Answer: B
8) ________ is a creative trait that refers to the ability to generate many ideas or possible
solutions to a problem.
A) Originality
B) Fluency
C) Flexibility
D) Elaboration
E) Originality and flexibility
Answer: B
9) Characteristics related to creative genius are:
A) the ability to become absorbed in an activity
B) responsiveness to internal and external stimuli
C) lack of inhibition
D) all of these
E) none of these
Answer: D
10) According to the text, in order for children to feel free to express themselves creatively, they
need to acquire a sense of:
A) Verbal fluency
B) Creativity and originality
C) Psychological safety and psychological freedom
D) Involvement
E) Internal order
Answer: C
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11) Which of the following creative thinking traits are often treated as misbehavior or disrespect
when exhibited by students from low socioeconomic backgrounds?
A) low tolerance for boredom
B) excitement and involvement with new designs, music, or ideas
C) aggressive and loud use of voice
D) high convergent thinking
E) A and B
Answer: E
12) One of the four key points about the way creativity develops is that:
A) creativity emerges in isolation and is not dependent upon the environment
B) important relationships exist between creativity and culture, especially in the early years
C) creative development is mediated by any artifact and is not specific to contextual domains
D) both adults and children share in the same culture of creativity
Answer: B
13) All of the following are observable characteristics of children's creative thought processes
except:
A) formulates hypotheses and conducts trials to test the ideas
B) enjoys thinking and working independently
C) asks few questions
D) are capable of tolerating ambiguity as they explore ideas
E) tries to bring order out of chaos by organizing their environment
Answer: C
14) The SCAMPER strategy was originally developed by Osborn (1948/1972) and elaborated on
by Barnes (2002). The acronym SCAMPER stands for:
A) substitute, combine, adapt, modify, magnify, minify, put to other uses, eliminate, reverse,
rearrange
B) state, clarify, advance, motivate, participate, estimate, retain, restate
C) simplify, calculate, articulate, manage, mediate, perfect, elaborate, record
D) seek information, circulate, allow for choices, maintain, produce, emphasize, recognize
Answer: A
15) A preschool teacher wants to support children's creativity and play in her classroom. How
can she provide these opportunities for them?
A) Designate time in the daily schedule for free play, centers, and other activities that will allow
children to follow their interests.
B) Take the children to the playground for recess.
C) Schedule ample time for large group and circle time activities.
D) Purchase pre-made centers and let the children play when they have time.
Answer: A
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16) During language arts, a fourth-grade teacher notices students struggling with organizing
information related to story elements. What is one effective way the teacher can help students
better organize story elements and related details?
A) Let the students create ways to organize the information.
B) Distribute copies of different graphic organizers and allow students to choose the best one.
C) Model the use of appropriate graphic organizers and allow students to build independence in
their use.
D) Allow the students to discuss the story elements in small groups
Answer: C
17) A teacher wants to incorporate more creativity into a lesson on community helpers for
kindergarten children. Which of the following strategies would be an effective way of
accomplishing this goal?
A) Show students a virtual field trip highlighting community helpers.
B) Invite guest speakers who serve as community helpers.
C) Have the students research the roles of community helpers.
D) Allow the students to dress and re-enact the roles of various community helpers.
Answer: D
18) A new kindergarten teacher asks a veteran teacher how to create a classroom environment
that supports creativity. What is the most helpful advice the veteran teacher can offer?
A) "Develop centers based on the letters and numbers and include worksheets at each station."
B) "Organize your classroom by learning centers and include play, art, music, and drawing."
C) "Wait a year until you get a better feel for what you want to do."
D) "Set up a classroom library with books students will enjoy."
Answer: B
19) Which of the following activities qualifies as an opportunity for children to be creative in
second grade?
A) Children are given a pattern for a puppet to color, cut out, and paste.
B) A teacher demonstrates how to make a card for Presidents' Day by tracing around silhouettes
of past presidents and encourages everyone to produce a card exactly like the one he produced.
C) Children work in groups to design sets and simple costumes to use as they perform familiar
stories for a kindergarten class.
D) Children use computer clip art to make an illustrated book.
Answer: C
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20) A father's job requires frequent airline travel and his wife and son, Roberto, often accompany
him to the terminal to see him off or pick him up. During a lesson on transportation, the children
are discussing a picture of an airplane in a book the teacher is reading to them. Many children are
commenting about the size of the plane and their personal experiences riding in one. Roberto
immediately starts questions including: "How do they get something so heavy to go up?" "What
if there is a big storm and the plane is in the sky?", "What if something breaks?", "What if they
run out of gas?" Robert's thinking is an example of:
A) Kinesthetic intelligence
B) Possibility thinking
C) Fantasy
D) Intrapersonal intelligence
Answer: B
21) A first-grade teacher presents her lessons on addition concepts in several ways to
accommodate to the children's ways of "showing what they know and can do." She includes: a
rap/chant about addition, small group practice with math manipulatives, and a cumulative story
in which one character is added to the group on each page. Which theorist would most clearly
support such practices?
A) Alfred Adler
B) Jean Piaget
C) Howard Gardner
D) Lev Vygotsky
Answer: C
22) After reading a story about a frog and a toad, a first grade class began to discuss similarities
and differences of toads and frogs. To help the students make a comparison the teacher could use
a:
A) Venn Diagram
B) Sequence Chart
C) Concept Map
D) Cause and Effect Diagram
Answer: A
23) Creative potential refers to an individual's capacity for behaving in creative ways and
includes:
A) cognitive abilities
B) cognitive processes
C) individual dispositions
D) all of the above
Answer: D
24) What type of questions stimulate possibility thinking?
A) Who
B) Where
C) What if
D) When
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25) When children engage in possibility thinking more frequently and are encouraged to
experience new and atypical solutions they become:
A) more confident in their ability to solve problems
B) more adept at possibility thinking
C) acquire the habit of thinking creatively
D) all of the above
Answer: D
26) Use the following choices to answer the the items below.
A. original
B. appropriate and relevant
C. fluent
D. flexible
E. all of these
1. ________ Creative behavior that results in many new meaningful forms.
2. ________ Creative behavior that has a low probability of occurrence.
3. ________ Creative behavior that meets the goals of the person who produced it.
4. ________ Creative behavior that explores and uses nontraditional approaches to problem
solving.
5. ________ The components of creative behavior.
Answer: 1. C, 2. A, 3. B, 4. D, 5. E
27) Use the following choices to answer the items below.
A. imagination
B. fantasy
C. A and B
D. psychological freedom
E. psychological safety
F. D and E
1. ________ The ability to form rich and varied mental images or concepts of people, places,
things, and situations which are not present.
2. ________ The ability to create mental images or concepts which have little similarity to the
real world.
3. ________ Explores the impossible or make-believe; the "what-if" situation.
4. ________ An intuitive sense of what might be or what something might become.
5. ________ Experts believe this peaks during early childhood.
6. ________ Carl Rogers' conditions for creative growth.
7. ________ The external environment that adults provide for children's creative growth.
8. ________ The internal environment, such as the child's self-esteem or confidence.
Answer: 1. A, 2. B, 3. B, 4. C, 5. C, 6. F, 7. E, 8. D
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28) Use the following choices to answer the items below.
A. preparation or brainstorming
B. incubation
C. illumination
D. verification/communication
1. ________ The mind begins to formulate and work on a problem.
2. ________ Sudden insight, selecting some ideas, or arriving at a solution.
3. ________ The application of knowledge, skills and understanding to materials, objects,
problems or combinations these things.
4. ________ When the outcome of the creative process is shared with others.
5. ________ The product of creative thought is tested in terms of usefulness, completeness and
correctness.
Answer: 1. B, 2. C, 3. A, 4. D, 5. D
29) Use the following choices to answer the items below.
A. constructivist
B. humanistic theory
C. psychoanalytic theory
1. ________ The creative person is fully functioning, self-actualized, and courageous.
2. ________ Creativity is a way of compensating for perceived physical or psychological
inferiority.
3. ________ Creativity is a type of problem solving that depends on the child’s thinking
processes.
Answer: 1. B, 2. C, 3. A
30) For the items below, indicate whether the environment thwarts creativity or supports
creativity.
A. This practice tends to thwart creativity.
B. This practice tends to support creativity.
1. ________ An emphasis on competition
2. ________ Lavish praise on children's work
3. ________ Inflexible schedules
4. ________ Rewarding courage and accepting nonconformist behavior
5. ________ Accepting new ideas
6. ________ Set strict and limited timelines for project and artifact completion
7. ________ Seeking new approaches to problems
8. ________ Creating learning communities in classrooms
Answer: 1. A, 2. A, 3. A, 4. B, 5. B, 6. A, 7. B, 8. B
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31) Since children are newer to the world, their sensory impressions are particularly keen.
Answer: TRUE
32) A teacher should encourage rather than praise a child.
Answer: TRUE
33) According to Gardner, children are not as free in their thinking as adults are.
Answer: FALSE
34) Imagination and fantasy are components of creativity that generally peak during late years
for children.
Answer: FALSE
35) Giving children printed pictures to color/or cut out is recommended in order to foster their
creativity.
Answer: FALSE
36) By age 5, children's creative thinking is often "stalled."
Answer: TRUE
37) Divergent thinking means that there is one acceptable answer.
Answer: FALSE
38) Teachers often associate creativity with economic privilege.
Answer: TRUE
39) Creative responses and products must be relevant and capable of offering genuine solutions.
Answer: TRUE
40) Creative thought exists only inside the individual.
Answer: FALSE
41) High-achieving children, those who do well academically, are the most creative individuals.
Answer: FALSE
42) Teacher-directed art activities—such as providing the children with cut out shapes and
asking them to assemble a picture—stimulate creativity.
Answer: FALSE
43) Classrooms in which product is emphasized over process are generally more creative
environments.
Answer: FALSE
44) Lev Vygotsky (1933), a Russian theorist, has argued that learning is fundamentally a
cognitive activity.
Answer: FALSE
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45) The best way to teach an art lesson is for the teacher to provide young children with patterns
to trace or copy.
Answer: FALSE
46) Generally speaking, teachers who have learned to value the process as well as the product are
more likely to encourage creativity among their students.
Answer: TRUE
47) Behaviors associated with imagination and creativity in young children are often interpreted
negatively, discouraged, or even punished.
Answer: TRUE
48) The most effective way to foster creativity is to constantly praise children's work.
Answer: FALSE
49) One of the fundamental skills a child learns while developing creativity is that of self-
evaluation.
Answer: TRUE
50) In order for teachers to foster creativity in students, they should provide support and positive
feedback for problem finding, not just problem solving.
Answer: TRUE
51) Activities stimulate creative thought and problem solving when they enable children to
engage in teacher-directed work.
Answer: FALSE
52) Creativity is a mental and social process.
Answer: TRUE
53) According to social capital theory, social support is necessary to bring creativity to fruition.
Answer: TRUE
54) There are many observable characteristics of children's creative thought processes. List four
of them and provide real-life examples that may be found in the early childhood classroom.
55) The creative process has been traditionally conceptualized as having four stages. List and
explain the four stages. Give an example of each stage within an early childhood setting.
56) Creative thinking in children is both like and different from that of adults. Create a Venn
diagram to compare and contrast children's and adult's creative thinking. Then, use the Venn
diagram to write a paragraph and explain the similarities and differences.
57) Everyday understandings of creativity are full of contradictions. Describe two of these
contradictions and how you plan to eradicate them within your own classroom.
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58) One of the basic precepts of Lev Vygotsky's theory is the "zone of proximal development."
Explain what this phrase means. Give one example of an early childhood activity which supports
his view, one example of an early childhood activity which opposes his view, and how this
activity fosters creativity.
59) There is a gap between creative potential and creative behavior. Use social capital theory to
explain how two people could be born with the same creative potential but their creative
behavior might not develop along the same path.
60) Eleven teaching practices were described as promoting children's creativity. Describe 4 of
those teaching practices and provide examples of how you would cultivate them in an in early
childhood classroom.
61) Technology is an ever expanding resource for classroom teachers. Wikis and Blogs were
described for their potential in the classroom setting. Provide an example of a technologically
based activity or app and how you use it to promote creativity in an elementary school
classroom.
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