CFS 331- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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A thinking and responding process that involves connecting to our previous experience. Ability to make something new out of available and stored information. Criteria for creativity: creative behavior is original. Has low probability of occurrence: doesn"t happe(cid:374) ofte(cid:374) Unusual and surprising, rather than typical and predictable: creative behavior is appropriate and relevant. Creativity needs to be relevant to the goals of the person who produced it: creative behavior is fluent. Creative behavior results in many new, meaningful forms. Fluency in creativity can be compared to fluency with language: creative behavior is flexible. It explores and uses nontraditional approaches to problem solving. See possibilities and materials and/or situations that others may consider useless. Creative behavior in adults or older children vs. young children are different. Young children can become totally absorbed in pretending. In programs where professionals and parents believe this, (cid:272)hildren"s (cid:272)reativity flourishes. When children are using their creative abilities, they typically:
