CHILDRENS CREATIVE-THINKING AND COLOR DISCRIMINATION

60 children in Grades 3 through 6 from two schools were administered t he Farnsworth Munsell 100-Hue Test and teachers provided a measure of different aspects of each child's creative thinking on the Williams Sc ale of Children's Divergent Thinking. Fluency and imagination scores w ere positively associated with color discrimination. While other dimen sions of creative thinking did not correlate with color discrimination , some correlations suggested thematic connections between color discr imination and other manifestations of creative thinking as evaluated b y teachers. Color discrimination was also positively associated with a ge, as older children differentiated between small differences in colo rs better than younger children. As intelligence or other variables ma y be relevant, further study is needed.