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| it is an innovative, unconventional approach to life that guides problem solving, invention, and other forms of expression |
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Term
Define:
Discovery
Invention
Creation |
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Definition
discovery is to find something that is already present in the world and share it. invention is to unearth something that was not present before. creation is to unearth and share something that was not present before and is profoundly personal. |
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Define
Exploratory Creativity
Transformational Creativity |
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Definition
Exploratory creativity is considering the possibilities and finding the right one. Transformation creativity is changing that space of possibilities. |
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| The Four P's of Creativity |
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Definition
Person
Process
Product
Place |
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Term
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Definition
Preparation
Incubation
Insight
Verification |
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Term
| Problems with Wallas' Four Stage Theory |
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Definition
| It is merely descriptive in nature. Linearity in the creative process has been largely discredited. |
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| It is those things that your thoughts repeatedly come back to; something that needs to be expressed, examined, played with, or understood. |
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Name the
12 Theories
of Creativity |
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Definition
1. mystical
2. psychodynamic
3. developmental/personality
4. psychmetric
5. economic
6. stage and componential process
7. cognitive
8. problem solving/expertise based
9. problem finding
10. evolutionary
11. typological/historimetric
12. system approach |
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Explain the
Mystical Theory
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Definition
| This was the earliest approach to creativity. A creative person was seen as an empty vessel that a divine being filled/possessed with inspiration. |
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Explain the
Psychodynamic Theory
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Definition
This was the Freudian approach. Creativity was the mind's way of resolving conflict between unconscious desires and reality in a publicly acceptable form.
This involves associative thought, adaptive regression, and preconscious interactions. |
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Term
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Definition
| intrusion of unmodulated thoughts into consciousness that occurs during creative problem solving as well as fantasy, intoxication, sleep, and psychotic episodes. |
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Definition
The state between conscious and unconscious in which thoughts are loose and vague but interpretable.
(this is viewed as the source of creativity in the psychodynamic theory) |
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Explain the
Developmental/Personality Theory |
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Definition
Creative potential unfolds over a lifeti,e through interactions between character traits of a person and the environment they are within.
It is thus affected by culture and upbringing. |
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Explain the
Psychometric Theory |
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Definition
Creativity can be measured reliably and validly and is studied in every day subjects by giving them simple divergent thinking tasks.
The assumption is that creativity can be developed. |
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Term
Torrance's Test of Creative Thinking
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advantage/disadvantage |
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Definition
a standardized scale for comparing individuals' creativity using verbal and figural tasks.
a: easy to administer, objectively scoreable
d: tasks are criticized as trivial and inadequate |
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Term
Explain the
Economic Theory |
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Definition
Buy low
Sell high
Creative thinkers are like good investors. This theory assumes that ideas are already in existance and just need to be marketed. |
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Term
Explain the
Stage and Componential Process Theory |
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Definition
Involves use of the Wallas' four stage theory.
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Amabile's Componential Model: There are three core features of individual creativity which include domain-relevant, creativity-relevant skills, and intrinsic motivation. |
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Explain the
Cognitive Theory |
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Definition
Focus on the cognitive processes of retrieval, association, analogy, metaphor, concept combination, categorical reduction, and meta cognition.
Involves the Geneplor Model |
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Term
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Definition
| the two main processing phases to the creative process are to generate and explore. |
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