The section on creativity in Chapter 11 examined research about intrinsic motivation and creativity in writing poetry. According to this research, people were especially likely to be creative
a. when they had high intrinsic motivation for working on the task.
b. when they knew that the best poem would receive a cash prize.
c. when they wrote poems with other participants in the same room, rather than when no other participants were in the room.
d. when the researchers specified the initial state, the goal state, and the obstacles.
Ans: a
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