Creativity, crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence and executive functions are all correlated in children aged 8 to 13¶
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q3 i? Correlational analyses show associations between all the cognitive variables under study (creativity, Gc, Gf, working memory, inhibition, shifting). → Krumm 2018
Evidence¶
Krumm 2018¶
Krumm, Gabriela Liliana; Arán Filippetti, Vanessa; Gutierrez Saez, Marisel Luisa. (2018). The contribution of executive functions to creativity in children: What is the role of crystallized and fluid intelligence?. Thinking Skills and Creativity. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2018.07.006
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Correlational analyses in the study of 209 children administered measures of creativity, crystallized and fluid intelligence, and EFs (working memory, inhibition, shifting). The article reports "associations between all cognitive variables under study"; no correlation coefficients are printed in the available text.
"Correlational analyses revealed associations between all cognitive variables under study."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it
- General Cognitive Ability — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Self-Regulation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- After controlling for children's level of intelligence, only shifting and inhibition make a significant contribution to creativity — related
- The effect of crystallized intelligence on children's creativity is mediated by shifting — related
- In children, shifting is a more powerful predictor of creativity than fluid and crystallized intelligence — related
- Openness to experience predicts creativity but not fluid intelligence, and further reduces the residual intelligence–creativity correlation to a trend. — related
- Updating ability, together with openness, explains a substantial part of the shared variance between fluid intelligence and creativity. — related
- Updating ability strongly predicts fluid intelligence, while shifting and inhibition do not significantly predict it. — related
- Executive functions and intelligence play an important role in creative thinking, but the relationship in children had been under-studied — related
- Lower health literacy and weaker cognitive abilities are associated with poorer performance on common healthcare tasks — related
- Men scored higher than women on rated divergent thinking creativity in this sample, with no sex differences in fluid intelligence or the executive functions. — related
- Creative and conventional metaphors are anchored in different patterns of cognitive abilities — related
- Creativity (divergent thinking ability) is predicted by both updating and inhibition, but not by shifting ability. — related
- The set of executive-function and intelligence predictors of academic achievement differs across Grades 2, 4, and 6, with EF contributions appearing cumulative as students get older — related
- AU and OC conditions show distinct correlation patterns with external creativity and fluency measures, supporting their differentiation as divergent thinking versus verbal ability conditions — related
- The dynamic systems model is used to explain differing views on education's role in developing children's creativity — related
- Intelligence and creativity share more variance than the traditional assumption of distinct abilities holds — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Cognitive resources play a dual role in SR, both enabling self-regulatory processes and constraining how Learning Activities unfold — related
- Children's age, general intelligence, and divergent thinking positively predicted tool innovation performance, while executive function measures predicted only ideal manipulation — related
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title |
Creativity, crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence and executive functions are all correlated in children aged 8 to 13 |
description |
Creativity, crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence and executive functions are all correlated in children aged 8 to 13 |
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review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
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2018 |
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2026-10-17 |
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2023 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-17 |
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1 — krumm-2018 |
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