Significant relationships were found between opinion formation and fluency, flexibility and originality scores from Torrance's Lines Test among 288 children in Grades 2 to 7. Grade in school had a significant effect upon opinion formation, flexibility, originality and elaboration scores, while sex had a significant effect upon fluency and opinion scores.
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