PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Creativity, Biological Warfare, Opportunity Cost
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Highly desirable (employers/parents) but rather elusive qualities. Person can exhibit creativity w/o being a genius and vice-versa. Both can converge in a single personality: isaac newton, descartes. Genius has a longer history as an individual difference variable. Rogers (1961) and maslow (1973) emphasized that creativity is good for the individual: typically associated with positive personal properties (i. e. , flexibility, openness, courage) Connected with favourable psychological development of the individual (self- actualization, personal fulfillment, improved mental health: predictive ability. What do we mean when we call someone creative: having originality (not an absolute, degrees exist, being adaptive (e. g. idea must provide the solution to some significant problem) Fluency: total # of suggestions you are able to make. Flexibility: # of times you shift from one class of possible uses to another. Originality: how novel or unusual your ideas are. Unusual uses test: you would be asked to think of as many uses as possible for some object: ex.
