Creative Thinking Flashcards
What are the four stages of the creative process?
- Saturation: Immerse yourself in what already exists in the field through intense and deep reading, sorting, evaluating, organizing, outlining and prioritizing.
- Incubation: Mulling over information.
- Illumination: Spontaneous, intuitive, and unbidden ah-ha moments.
- Verification: Challenging and testing the creative breakthrough you have had.
What does the left hemisphere control?
Writing, language, scientific skills, mathematics, list, logic; linear thinking mode.
What does your right hemisphere control?
Holistic thinking mode: emotional expression, spatial awareness, creativity, imagination,dimension, whole picture
What are the types of creativity and examples for each?
Deliberate, spontaneous, cognitive, and emotional.
Deliberate and cognitive: Thomas Edison;
Spontaneous and cognitive: Issac Newton;
Deliberate and emotional: therapeutic moments;
Spontaneous and emotional: artists and musicians (writers?)
What are another different types of creativity and examples for each?
Combine, Explore, and Transform
Combine: field: business; value: synthesis->Steve Jobs
Explore: field: science; value: curiosity->Charles Darwin
Transform: field: art, politics/religion, psychology; value: change->Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Carl Jung.
What type of creativity does engineering encompass?
Meta-creativity: encompasses combining, exploring, transforming; synthesis, curiosity, change; innovation and creation.
How many times is the average number of neuronal connections in a toddler’s brain more than that in adult’s brain?
2x
How often does the brain rewire itself? Where?
Every 3-6 years in frontal cortex which controls organizing, planning and focusing.
How do you define neuroplasticity? What does this imply?
The ability of the brain to change in terms of structure and function in response to the environment.
This blurs the distinction between nature and nurture.
What trigger the brain rewiring?
In response to stimuli and trauma.
Explain the differences between fluid and crystallized intelligence and give an example for each.
Fluid intelligence refers to the capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations. Mathematical and logical problems are the domain of fluid intelligence.
Crystallized intelligence refers to the ability to use skills, knowledge and experience. Language and rhetorical problems are the domain fo crystallized intelligence.
True or False: the older brain can increase its fluid intelligence?
Yes, with computer-assisted learning technologies.
what is the difference between the younger and older brains in terms of solving problems?
Younger brains can solve novel problems faster than older brains;
older brains can solve known problems with greater precision.
What is the source of creativity in the brain?
Fusiform gyrus.
What is mature creativity? What are some techniques for creativity?
Mature crreativity comes from observation of the world around us with a “what-if” attitude-a willingness to suspend our dependence upon rules-a view that anything is possible.
Observing nature, focuses meditation, role playing, free writing, journal writing, problem-solving heuristics.
