Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months
Creativity is an important skill that relates to innovation, problem-solving and artistic achievement. However, relatively little is known about the early development of creative potential in very young children, in part due to a paucity of tasks suitable for use during infancy. Current measures of...
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| author | Teo, Ling Zheng Leong, Victoria |
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| description | Creativity is an important skill that relates to innovation, problem-solving and artistic achievement. However, relatively little is known about the early development of creative potential in very young children, in part due to a paucity of tasks suitable for use during infancy. Current measures of creativity in early childhood include the Unusual Box Test, Torrance's Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) task and the Toca Kitchen Monsters task. These tasks are designed for children aged above 12, 36 and 18 months respectively, but very few measures of creativity can be used for infants aged below 2. Accordingly, here we report age-appropriate adaptations of TCAM and Toca Kitchen Monsters tasks for infants as young as 12 to 24 months. Considerations taken into account include (1) infants' cognitive capacities (i.e., attention span, language comprehension skills, motor skills, and approach to play), and (2) practicality of the stimuli, including suitability for use amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The modified creativity battery for infants includes three tasks: Music Play, Object Play and Exploratory Play tasks. The task protocols elaborated in this paper are intended to facilitate studies on the early development of creativity in infants aged between 12 and 24 months. Primary highlights include: •Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for use with infants aged between 12 and 24 months. •Consideration of infants' cognitive capacities and stimulus practicality. •Innovative use of movement as expression of infants' creative behaviour. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1747442024-04-14T15:30:35Z Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months Teo, Ling Zheng Leong, Victoria School of Social Sciences Social Sciences Precursors of creativity Measurements of creativity Creativity is an important skill that relates to innovation, problem-solving and artistic achievement. However, relatively little is known about the early development of creative potential in very young children, in part due to a paucity of tasks suitable for use during infancy. Current measures of creativity in early childhood include the Unusual Box Test, Torrance's Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) task and the Toca Kitchen Monsters task. These tasks are designed for children aged above 12, 36 and 18 months respectively, but very few measures of creativity can be used for infants aged below 2. Accordingly, here we report age-appropriate adaptations of TCAM and Toca Kitchen Monsters tasks for infants as young as 12 to 24 months. Considerations taken into account include (1) infants' cognitive capacities (i.e., attention span, language comprehension skills, motor skills, and approach to play), and (2) practicality of the stimuli, including suitability for use amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The modified creativity battery for infants includes three tasks: Music Play, Object Play and Exploratory Play tasks. The task protocols elaborated in this paper are intended to facilitate studies on the early development of creativity in infants aged between 12 and 24 months. Primary highlights include: •Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for use with infants aged between 12 and 24 months. •Consideration of infants' cognitive capacities and stimulus practicality. •Innovative use of movement as expression of infants' creative behaviour. Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This research was conducted under the Cambridge-NTU Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) which is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), and supported by the RIE2025 Human Potential Programme Prenatal/Early Childhood Grant (H22P0M0002), administered by A∗STAR and awarded to Victoria Leong. 2024-04-09T01:26:21Z 2024-04-09T01:26:21Z 2024 Journal Article Teo, L. Z. & Leong, V. (2024). Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months. MethodsX, 12, 102655-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2024.102655 2215-0161 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174744 10.1016/j.mex.2024.102655 38559388 2-s2.0-85188616085 12 102655 en H22P0M0002 MethodsX © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Precursors of creativity Measurements of creativity Teo, Ling Zheng Leong, Victoria Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months |
| title | Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months |
| title_full | Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months |
| title_fullStr | Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months |
| title_full_unstemmed | Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months |
| title_short | Age-appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12-24 months |
| title_sort | age appropriate adaptation of creativity tasks for infants aged 12 24 months |
| topic | Social Sciences Precursors of creativity Measurements of creativity |
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