The ZPC describes an appropriate level of creative potential to be developed by the learner when engaged in an activity that allows an appropriate potential of creativity during the development of a creative solution, which is original, valuable, useful, and parsimonious for a given situation and context.
The creative potential is then indicated through an index value, which serves as an overall indicator of creative potential.
This story2code task offers different degrees of creative potential to be solved while being simple to achieve.
Specifically, we tested the effects of creative potential, intelligence, and openness to experiences on everyday creative activities and actual creative achievement.
Measures of creative potential, openness to experiences, and intelligence were all normally distributed.
The threshold hypothesis is commonly investigated using measures of creative potential (cf. Kaufman & Plucker, 2011).
Turning to the prediction of creative achievement, we find that the contrary holds true: Here, neither openness nor the indicators of creative potential had significant effects.
We found openness to experiences and two independent indicators of creative potential, ideational originality and ideational fluency, to predict everyday creative activities.
Our findings further support the view that ideational fluency and ideational originality are discriminable aspects of creative potential.
Specifically, our recent results suggest that the intelligence threshold depends on the employed criterion: Although we observed threshold effects for indicators of creative potential, we found no evidence for an intelligence threshold in creative achievement.
This is necessary for the further development of the creative potential of architecture and engineering.
