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.

flower

burn

light

planet

mother

middle

ray

factor

generation

cube

age

cream

basket

game

base

fairy

paste

wisdom

attack

burn

bleeding

juice

blood

peel

mail

delivery

ice cream

tank

tuna

jelly

rose

crystal

glass

sighting

crash

conspiracy

chinese

street

brick

crossing

stripes

fish

fob

chain

word

queen

fire

hill

traffic

strawberry

session

soy

frozen

blueberry

dive

bleed

honey

pool

park

keys

hut

pie

pepperoni

face

ski

gas

lamp

drawer

reception

finger

key

wedding

writer

holy

town

tea

fig

maple