La relación entre el nivel de la habilidad para identificardiferencias, semejanzas, relaciones y multiperspectivas en discentes universitarios chilenos y su nivel de creatividad

Resumo

Currently there is significant agreement that in almost every aspect of human activity, Creativity is considered a complex cognitive ability that is essential in the development of people from various perspectives, such as: economic, social, educative, wellbeing, growth and even happiness. As a result, in September 2008, the European Parliament agreed to declare 2009 as the “European year of the creativity and the Innovation (AECI)” with the aim to better prepare the European Union to solve the great and crucial future challenges that it will face in this globalized world. Taking in consideration the importance of the Creativity and searching for a way to make the construct easier to handle, the following research studied and found empirical evidence and theories, to confirm that the complex ability called “Creativity” has at least the lower level cognitive abilities corresponding to the capacity to identify, “differences”, “similarities”, “relations” and “multi-perspectives”. Additionally this research provides empirical evidence to confirm that the results provided by the scales used to test this abilities (test T4H) are each separately and strongly when added up, a valid statistical predictor of the level of “Creativity” of the Chilean participants that were involved in the study. In order to measure the lower level abilities, the scales of the test “T4H” were applied and in the case of the concept of “Creativity” it was used the test of “Creative Intelligence CREA”. The work included the application of the four scales of the test “T4H”, simultaneously with the test “CREA” in nine samples in two universities of Santiago Chile, during the first and second semesters of 2011 and the first and second semesters of 2012.