ARP tests
Aptitude Research Project tests: tests of divergent thinking produced by the Southern California Aptitude Research Project. Test items include writing a series of words containing a specified letter (word fluency), writing titles for short-story plots (ideational fluency, originality), writing words similar in meaning to a given word (associational fluency), writing sentences containing words beginning with given letters (expressional fluency), and listing different consequences of a hypothetical situation, such as people no longer needing sleep (see creativity measurement; Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking). These tests received considerable attention from intelligence researchers in the 1960s and 1970s but less since then, largely because the structure of intellect model, which they were designed to operationalize and test, has become much less popular. [devised by Joy Paul Guilford and
associates in the 1950s to 1980s]