Abstract:
This study investigated the effects of mental imagery, reward and gender on creativity. One hundred and seven- six senior secondary two (SS2) Students of Alvana Model Secondary School Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Imo State, completed the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ). Of these students, Nine- six (48 male and 48 females) was classified as vivid imagers and non-vivid imagers based on their performance on VVIQ. They were assigned randomly into reward and no reward conditions in unusual creative uses of a knife and creative instances of things that are round of divergent thinking tasks. Reward was manipulated by verbal instruction while gender was not manipulated; rather it was employed as a basis for sample selection. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was the main statistic used for data analysis. Results of the data analysis indicate that on creativity task, vivid imagers differed significantly from non-vivid imagers (p<0 .001="" also="" an="" and="" between="" condition="" creativity.="" creativity="" differed="" div="" effect="" finding="" findings="" for="" from="" further="" gender="" had="" he="" highlighted="" however="" imagery="" implications="" in="" interaction="" made.="" mental="" no="" of="" on="" p="" participants="" research="" reward="" showed="" significant="" significantly="" suggestions="" that="" the="" there="" was="" were="">
