Creativity and Attention: An Individual Difference Approach

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dc.contributor.advisorGolob, Edward
dc.contributor.authorRamos Ruiz, Beatrice Nicole
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMock, Jeffery
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCoyle, Thomas
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5825-165X
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-12T20:02:42Z
dc.date.available2024-02-12T20:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2021
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dc.description.abstractA small body of literature posits that attention is related to creativity. Previous studies have shown a possible relationship of creative individual attending to irrelevant information. Others have shown that creativity is related to attentional control. Specifically, a lower ability to control attention is related to greater creative achievement. Additionally, a stronger ability to control attention was related to better divergent thinking performance. Furthermore, it has been speculated that the relationship between schizophrenia and creativity is mediated by attentional pattern, that is both attending to more stimuli than non-creative and non-schizophrenic individuals. These past studies have not used validated measures of auditory attention. Thus, it is unclear if modal specific aspects of attention, such as the right ear advantage, ability to focus attention on one ear, and misperceptions are also related to creativity. Two studies were conducted to investigate this relationship. Both studies utilized a consonant-vowel dichotic listening task to measure the right ear advantage and auditory misperceptions in focused (i.e. attending to one side of space) and divided (i.e. attending to both sides of space) attention conditions. Additionally, both studies measured three facets of creativity: creative achievement, divergent thinking, and creative problem solving. The right ear advantage was not related to creativity; however, both studies demonstrated a negative correlation between misperceptions and creativity. These results indicate that the tendency to misperceive indicate harmful attentional lapses.
dc.description.departmentPsychology
dc.format.extent59 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9798516001147
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/5378
dc.languageen
dc.subjectAttention
dc.subjectAlternative use task
dc.subjectAUT
dc.subjectDichotic listening
dc.subjectMisperceptions
dc.subjectAuditory attention
dc.subjectModal specific aspects
dc.subjectDivided and focused attention
dc.subjectRight ear advantage
dc.subjectDivergent thinking
dc.subjectProblem solving
dc.subjectCreative achievement
dc.subject.classificationPsychology
dc.subject.classificationPsychobiology
dc.subject.classificationCognitive psychology
dc.titleCreativity and Attention: An Individual Difference Approach
dc.typeThesis
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thesis.degree.departmentPsychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science

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