PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mood Disorder, Writers Workshop, Creativity
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Week 12 lecture #9: wednesday november 23, 2016. Won"t be test on the narrative perspective topic. Highly desirable (employers/parents) but rather elusive qualities. Person can exhibit creativity without being a genius and vice-versa. Both can converge in a single personality. Genius has a longer history as an individual difference variable. Creativity: rogers (1961) and maslow (1973) emphasized that creativity is good for the individual. Typically associated with positive personal properties (i. e. , flexibility, openness, Can be creative w/o being genius, can be a genius w/o being creative. Genius quantitatively defined courage: connected with favourable psychological development of the individual (self-actualization, personal fulfillment, improved mental health) Having originality (not an absolute; degrees exist) Being adaptive (e. g. , idea must provide the solution to some significant problem) Adj such as: genius, ability, curiosity, iq, inspiration, improve. Fluency: total number of suggestions you are able to make. Flexibility: number of times you shift from one class of possible uses to another.
