PSYCH 223 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Face Validity
● Creatives
○ GRIT? (1% inspiration..99% perspiration)
○ Motivation
○ As said by Czik, “Not a flashbulb – mostly hard work and time!”
■ Failure is part of doing it right “FIND AND FIX” nDon’t confuse Process
and Goal [or idea and
● Divergent Thinking
○ Divergent – open / expanding process of generating ideas and making new
connections
■ Fluency (number of ideas generated)
■ Flexibility (different categories) > Abstractness (of titles)
■ Originality (statistical rarity)
■ Elaboration (amount of detail, added ideas)
■ Resistance (to closure. Seek second answer, stay open-minded)
○ Encourage by: Remove fear and judgment uQuick and light and question
● Expertise
○ Domain focused, process large units&faster(patterns), more fluent retrieval, deep
representation/organization, more time analyzing, better self-monitoring.
○ nature/nuture
○ In terms of creativity, neccessary but not sufficient
○ Grit (hardwork is a huge factor)
● Openness to Experience
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○ Imaginative, curious, creative, original
● GRIT
○ measure of grit that met four criteria: evidence of psychometric soundness, face
validity for adolescents and adults pursuing goals in a variety of domains (e.g.,
not just work or school), low likelihood of ceiling effects in high-achieving
populations, and most important, a precise fit with the construct of grit.
○ We define grit as perseverance and passion for long-term goals.
○ Grit entails working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest
over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress. The gritty
