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Intelligence and creativity (Guilford; Csikszentmihalyi)
Intelligence has long been conceived of as critical in adaptation to existing environments, whereas creativity, which involves the production of an idea or product that is both novel and useful has been viewed as critical to the modification or shaping those environments.

In Guilford structure of Intellect model, he suggested three basic dimensions of intelligence, wich form a cube:

1.	operations – cognition, memory, divergent production, convergent production, evaluation,

2.	content – figural, symbolic, semantic, behavioral,

3.	products – units, classes, relations

Most relevant for creativity is divergent production, wich involves a broad search for information and the generation of numerous nowel answers to problems as opposed to one singe answer, wich represents convergent production. Definition leave it unclear exactly what the relationship between intelligence and creativity is. A broad definition of intelligence can include shaping of the environment (Sternberg, 1985) and a broad definition a creativity recognizes that creative ideas need to be not only novel but adaptive in some sense. Ochse (1990)suggest that to the extent intelligence involves selecting and shaping environment, it is creativity.

According to Getzels and Csikszentmihalyi (1972) creativity and intelligence may represent different processes. Intelligence is required in different degrees across fields of creative endeavor. For example, great amounts of intelligence may not be needed to be a creative artist but certainly would be expected in a Nobel-prize winning physicist. One could also say that creativity is required in widely different degrees in different fields of intelligent behavior.

Intelligence as a super-set of creativity

One view of the relation between intelligence as a super-set of a creativity or equivalently, of creativity as a subset of intelligence. Binet included an inkblot for children to describe as a measure of imagination, but Binet later dropped it because he couldn't develop a reliable scoring system for it. It appears that Binet's troubles with creativity tests foreshadowed the frustrations future researchers would for a over a century.

Intelligence and a creativity as overlapping sets

The view of intelligence and creativity as overlapping sets implies that in some ways intelligence and creativity are similar, but in other ways they are different. Another way in distinguishing creativity from intelligence has been proposed by Shouksmith (1973), who said that judging the correctness or rightness of a response, that is, the extent to which an answer or problem solution is fitting or appropriate to the problem or situation, is a creativity measure. The overlap would represent responses that are both right and good.