Normative Data for 111 Compound Remote Associates Test Problems in Romanian

Ana-Maria Olteţeanu; Mihaela Taranu; Thea Ionescu

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01859

Normative Data for 111 Compound Remote Associates Test Problems in Romanian

Front Psychol. 2019 Sep 4:10:1859. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01859. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Ana-Maria Olteţeanu¹, Mihaela Taranu², Thea Ionescu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Informatics and Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
² School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Abstract

The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a classical creativity test developed by Mednick and Mednick in 1967. RAT problems and their norms so far exist only in a few languages, including English, Dutch, Japanese and Italian. In this paper, we describe our process of constructing a set of Remote Associates Test problem in Romanian. 63 native speaking Romanian participants have solved this set. The set of items shows high internal consistency. Normative data pertaining to each problem is provided, together with a description of RAT problems peculiarities in Romanian.

Keywords: Romanian; creative cognition; creativity tests; normative data; remote associates test.