Guildford's Structure of the Intellect

Joy Guildford was a psychologist that started to examine the creative process in more depth in the 1950s since he felt that our understanding of creativity was limited to the assumption that it was a result of intelligence, traditionally measured by IQ. The following extract was taken from a summary worksheet produced by the Co-Creativity Institute in Illinois:

'Guildford sought to develop tests for each combination of the possibilities on these three dimensions, expecting that a person could be high on some of these abilities while being low on others.  In The nature of human intelligence (1967) and Way beyond the IQ (1977), he lays out the results of his efforts and the modified model which evolved from his research.' - Christopher Barlow, The Co-Creativity Institute, 2000

You can read about these dimensions and how they link to creative thinking by downloading the following pdf document or by clicking on the images below: