To help you think about a suitable term-paper topic, it may be helpful to look at the following two lists. By matching an item in List A (independent variables or causes) with a corresponding item in List B (dependent variables or effects), you can obtain some possibilities (e.g., “the effect of gender on scientific creativity”). Of course, not all pairings have been the subject of psychological research.  You should search through PsycINFO to make sure appropriate publications are available.  Moreover, you are by no means bound by the topics on these two lists - this is a course on creativity after all!
 

List A

List B

age artificial intelligence  birth order  brain (e.g., hemispheric differentiation, frontal lobes)  chance  child-rearing practices  decision making  depression  disabilities (physical, learning, dyslexia, etc.)  domain-specific experience and/or training  drugs and/or alcohol  education (k-12, college, graduate, professional)  experts or expertise  extraversion  gender  genetics  grade point average  groups  home environment  ideology  imagination  insight  integrative complexity  intelligence or IQ  interpersonal relationships  intuition  logic  manic depression  marginality  mentors  motivation (power, achievement, and/or affiliation)  nature-nurture issue  neuroticism  parental loss or other adversity  personality  problem solving  productivity  psychopathology  psychosis  role models  schizophrenia  serendipity  socioeconomic status  suicide  teaching techniques  training or coaching  zeitgeist, cultural  zeitgeist, economic  zeitgeist, political  zeitgeist, religious

aesthetics, artistic aesthetics, literary  aesthetics, musical  aesthetics, scientific  creativity, artistic  creativity, cinematic  creativity, dramatic  creativity, inventive  creativity, literary  creativity, musical  creativity, scientific  genius, artistic  genius, business  genius, chess  genius, coaching  genius, comic  genius, literary  genius, military  genius, musical  genius, political  genius, scientific  giftedness, academic  giftedness, artistic  giftedness, intellectual  giftedness, literary  giftedness, musical  giftedness, scientific  humor  leadership, business  leadership, charismatic  leadership, military  leadership, political  leadership, presidential  leadership, religious  leadership, revolutionary  prodigies, artistic  prodigies, chess  prodigies, mathematical  prodigies, musical  prodigies, omnibus  savants, calculating  savants, calendrical  savants, musical  talent, artistic  talent, athletic  talent, chess  talent, inventive  talent, mathematical  talent, musical  talent, scientific