Finke's creating an object experiment had participants create a novel object by combining parts. ...

Finke's creating an object experiment had participants create a novel object by combining parts. Once they created an object, they were given the name of an object category and instructed to interpret their creation as a practical object or device within that category. Finke used the term preinventive forms to describe the
 
  a. object parts.
  b. novel objects before a function was described.
  c. practical objects within the category.
  d. inventions rated high in both practicality and originality.

Question 2

In the movie Apollo 13, astronauts aboard a damaged spacecraft have to build a carbon dioxide filter out of random items that are aboard the ship with them. If they do not, they will all die rapidly of carbon dioxide poisoning. The fact that they are able to do so with the help of experts on Earth is similar to the approach developed by Ronald Finke.
 
  a. convergent thinking
  b. creative cognition
  c. divergent thinking
  d. the means-end analysis

Question 3

Phoenix Decorating Company is responsible for designing and building many of the floral floats seen in the Tournament of Roses Parade every New Year's Day. Phoenix's designers start preparing the floats for the next year's parade soon after the first of the year. For each corporate sponsor, Phoenix gets their best advertising team members, and they sit in a room for several hours throwing out every idea they can come up with, no matter how good or bad it is. After a substantial list has been created, they then go through every idea and rate its merits or deficits, until they come up with the best idea to pitch to the corporate sponsor. This process demonstrates
 
  a. creative cognition.
  b. group brainstorming.
  c. convergent thinking.
  d. structural analyses.