Nature of Changes in Creativity Scores in Preschool and Junior Schoolchildren

The article grounds the topicality of the conducted research, which is associated with social demand for development of creative personality starting from the preschool age. This required the clarification of the nature of diagnostic creativity scores and their dynamics. We elicited the factors that are responsible for their increase: changes in motor sphere in children of 6 – 8 affect the speed of movements; the lack of operations for classification of objects and some compensatory mechanisms in junior school children with low intelligence lead to high scores of originality. Thus, high scores on the Torrance test don’t unequivocally indicate creative abilities in children.