The Remote Associates Test (RAT) was developed by Professor Sarnoff Mednick and Martha T. Mednick in the 1960s as a test used to measure creative convergent thinking.

Each task on the test lists a group of words, and requires that a single extra word is provided, that will link all the others together.

coin / quick / spoon - SILVER

Often, these words can be associated in a number of ways, such as by forming a compound word or a semantic association.
“Creative thought” is called upon to find the right answer because the first and most obvious solution is often wrong.

Only when more remote connections have been retrieved can the participant relate the three words to each other.

sun

flower


burn


light

earth

planet


mother


middle

x

ray


factor


generation

ice

cube


age


cream

ball

basket


game


base

tooth

fairy


paste


wisdom

heart

attack


burn


bleeding

orange

juice


blood


peel

van

mail


delivery


ice cream

fish

tank


tuna


jelly

quartz

rose


crystal


glass

ufo

sighting


crash


conspiracy

wall

chinese


street


brick

zebra

crossing


stripes


fish

key

fob


chain


word

ant

queen


fire


hill

jam

traffic


strawberry


session

yogurt

soy


frozen


blueberry

nose

dive


bleed


honey

car

pool


park


keys

pizza

hut


pie


pepperoni

mask

face


ski


gas

desk

lamp


drawer


reception

ring

finger


key


wedding

ghost

writer


holy


town

leaf

tea


fig


maple