PSYC 3550 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dont, Word Ways, John D. And Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation
24 Mar 2013
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Creativity can mean: to produce through imaginative skill, to produce something out of nothing, to improve something. Imaginative skill suggests that we can use our imagination as a tool to solve problems. We can envision a new design or solution. Creativity is something: novel, useful or significant. Creativity can be local small c creativity (e. g. , you modify a recipe), or universal big c creativity (e. g. , Creativity is a basic human instinct to make that which is new. It is personality, the process and the product within a domain in interaction with genetic influences and with optimal environments influences of home, school. Individuals vary greatly in the amount and kinds of creative talent/ it can be enhanced or suppressed. 3 types of creativity: personal creativity your life as art creating/recreating yourself, artistic creativity art, music, performing, creative problem solving (cps) inventing solutions. Bisociation common method of invention where two things are connected that have not been connect before.
