PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lateral Thinking, Creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert
14 Feb 2018
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Defining creativity: vertical /lateral thinking, 3 s"s, myths. Causes of creativity: external sources, cognitive sources. For using bricks, it is not creativity b/c it is appropriate but not unusual. Judgments of creativity can change over time: matter of subjective judgment, and people will disagree (continuum) ( (cid:16370) (cid:16369)) Gardner (1989) argues that creative people regularly solve problems or fashion products that are creative. Creative thinking: vertical thinking is thinking that is logical and straightforward. It is used in the refinement of existing ideas and development of ideas: lateral thinking is thinking around a problem (this should be used for being a creative person) Redefining the problem, a synonym for creative thinking. Inventive: engineering, new products (you need actual create sth) Innovative: modify field, as in ideas and concepts ( , eg. change pre-exist ways) Pay more attention to their senses (touch, smell, sight, etc.
