| According to the analysis of the present researches about creativity and creative thinking, we found these researches focused on the theories about creative concepts and constructions, while there were not empirical studies. Especially, the researches on advantages factors for creative thinking were fairly rare. Our researches focus on one of the advantageous factors influencing creative thinking, through questionnaire and experiments. So far, the relations between association and creative thinking were fairly rare. Based on the global researches, the questionnaire was applied in the thesis to investigate the differences in creative thinking. The association method was used to examine the relation between creative thinking and association in study . The results indicate that: 1.The creative thinking of college students has descending tendency. In total,the freshers are better than the other three grades. 2.There are significant differences in creative thinking in gender,the female college students are better than the male ones in opening,elaboration and title;3.There are significant differences in creative thinking of arts and science college students in opening ,versatility ,originality and title. 4. The high group of subjects performed higher ability of association than the low group, mainly on the aspects of associative type and distance. 5. The level of creative thinking was significantly correlated with the association ability.The study indicated that association was one of the advantageous factors influencing creative thinking. Studying the relations between creative thinking and words association, can provide scientific psychological grounds for training people's scientific thinking and developing people's wisdom and latent ability. To train individual's association rules and thoughts base on this study. This study offers a new research visual angle from which to explore the relations between creative thinking and association. |
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