Creative Thinking Flashcards
What is creativity
The ability to create
definition of Create
- to produce through imaginative skill
- to make or bring into existence something new
What does research indicate for pre-schoolers
that preschool children are incredibly creative
What is the argument of nurture and nature for lack of creativity when we get older
Nurture:
Nature:
Nurture:
lack of freedom as we grow up
Nature:
the tendency of the brain to prune unused neurons as we age
what does research indicate about our creativity levels
that we are not simply born with certain levels of creativity
what are our brains capable of doing
elasticity: is capable of developing certain skills with practice
what are the 4 steps of the creative process
- saturation
- incubation
- illumination
- verification
types of creativity (Dietrich,A)
- cognitive
- deliberate
- emotional
- spontaneous
boder’s types of creativity and examples
- combination
- Field: Business
- Value: Synthesis
- Example: Steve Jobs
- exploration
- Field: Science
- Value: Curiosity
- Example: Charles Darwin
- transformation
- Field: Art
- Value: Change
- Example: Martin Luther King
what type of creativity is engineering placed in
a multitude, no one category can define. (meta-creativity)
a toddler’s brain has about what amount of the average number
of neuronal connections as the adult brain
double the average number
of neuronal connections as the adult brain
what is neuroplasticity
the ability of the brain to change in response to the environment.
what is fluid intelligence
the capacity to think logically and solve problems in new
situations (mathematical/logical problems)
what is crystallized intelligence
the ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience (language/rhetorical problems)
the brain can wire itself in response to what?
stimuli and trauma
