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Lecture notes on the Creativity lecture of the first year module Introduction to Psychology
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Introduction to psychology22/11/19 Creativity
What is creativity?
College students described creativity as:
Non-entrenchment (e.g. making up rules as goes along)
Integration and intellectuality (e.g. making connections between ideas)
Aesthetic taste and imagination
Decisional skill and flexibility
Perspicacity (perceptive)
Drive for accomplishment and recognition
Inquisitive
Intuitive
“Creativity is defined as intelligent, goal-directed search within a culturally defined domain
for novel solutions to more or less well defined problems, resulting in the generation of a
novel product”.
(Nielson, 1996).
“… creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative
force in psychotherapy – man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. …
the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature, the tendency to express and activate all the
capacities of the organism, to the extent that such activation enhances … the self.”
(Rogers, 1959).
“… creative thinking, [is] defined as the thought processes involved in producing work of
acknowledged greatness in art or science.”
(Weisberg, 1989, p. 148).
‘Adaptive novelty’
This holds that creativity is a process whereby a new product or performance emerges,
which is:
Original and novel
Useful, valuable or adaptive.
Creativity holds a purpose.
The creative process
Wallis (1926) posited this pattern.
1. Preparation
- Preparing for idea
2. Incubation
- Hitting wall, unable to come up with solution
3. Inspiration
, - Having idea and trying it out
4. Verification
- Finding something that works.
Is creativity the same as intelligence?
Creativity
= Intelligence Creativity
intelligence
intelligence
Intelligence Creativity
Creativi
ty
1
1. Creativity = intelligence
Weisberg (1999, 2006) argues that intelligence and creativity are a unitary
phenomenon
The mechanisms underlying creativity are no different from that underlying
intelligence.
2. Creativity is a small subsect of intelligence
Silvia & Beaty focus on divergent thinking tasks rather than broader measures
of creativity.
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