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Theories of Creativity

Theories of Creativity. Class 2 January 24, 2005. Creativity: An individual trait or situation-driven?. Both Individual Trait Situation-Driven. Individual Traits Influencing Creativity. Intrinsic Motivation Personality (e.g., Myers Briggs)

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Theories of Creativity

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  1. Theories of Creativity Class 2 January 24, 2005

  2. Creativity:An individual trait or situation-driven? • Both • Individual Trait • Situation-Driven

  3. Individual Traits Influencing Creativity • Intrinsic Motivation • Personality (e.g., Myers Briggs) • Other Personality-Related Individual Differences: • Left vs. Right Brain • Need for Cognition • Dogmatism • Divergent Thinking Ability • Willingness to Break the Rules • Intelligence

  4. Approaches to Studying Creativity • Case Studies / Historiometric • Developmental • Biological • Psychometric • Experimental • Social-Personality • (e.g. motivation, risk-taking, intelligence) • Cognitive • (e.g., processing strategies, imagery)

  5. The Creative Cognition Approach • Creative accomplishments, whether mundane or extraordinary, are based on ordinary mental processes • Thus, our understanding of human cognition can be directly applied to understanding creative thought as well

  6. The Creative Cognition Approach • The Geneplore Model • Generative Processes • Pre-Inventive Structures (Finke, Ward, and Smith 1992) • Mental transformation / assimilation to create a structure • For example, arrange an 8, a V, and a circle to make a figure or structure • Exploratory Processes

  7. Creative Cognition • Path of Least Resistance (“POLR”) (Perkins 1997; Ward 1994) • Top-Down Process • Recall an existing solution to an active problem • Implement a well-known plan to solve it

  8. Constraints and the POLR • Constraints • Input Restrictions • In-Stock (Acquisition Costs) • Monetary (Budgetary Constraints)

  9. Input Constraints and the POLR

  10. Individual Traits Influencing Creativity • Intrinsic Motivation • Personality (e.g., Myers Briggs) • Other Personality-Related Individual Differences: • Left vs. Right Brain • Need for Cognition • Dogmatism • Divergent Thinking Ability • Willingness to Break the Rules • Intelligence • 8 Types of Intelligence (Gardner) • Linguistic (writing poems, short stories) • Logical, mathematical (solving a logical proof) • Spatial (getting the “lay of the land”) • Bodily-kinesthetic (athletics/dancing) • Musical (composing/playing) • Interpersonal (relating to others) • Intrapersonal (self understanding) • Naturalist (seeing complex patterns in a natural environment)

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