Creativity

Question 1

4 Types of Creativity

Answer 1

Creative Realism
Creative Idealism
Conservative Realism
Conservative Idealism

Question 2

3 Parts of Creativity

Answer 2

Fluency
Flexibility
Originality

Question 3

Fluency

Answer 3

Number of Ideas

Question 4

Flexibility

Answer 4

Number of Different Categories of Ideas

Question 5

Originality

Answer 5

How Unusual the Ideas Are

Question 6

Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules

Answer 6

Criticism ruled out
Freewheeling is welcome
Quantity desired
Combination and improvement of ideas encouraged

Question 7

What research says about quantity and quality of brainstormed ideas

Answer 7

Quality and quantity are both better in individual brainstorming sessions than groups

Question 8

Threats to Team Creativity

Answer 8

Social Loafing
Conformity
Production Blocking
Performance Matching

Question 9

Production Blocking

Answer 9

When group members cannot express their ideas because others are presenting their ideas

Question 10

Enhancing Team Creativity

Answer 10

Set High-Quantity Goals
Competition
Focus on Categories 
Explicit Set of Rules
Increase Individual Accountability

Question 11

Brainwriting

Answer 11

Simultaneous generation of written ideas DURING MEETING

Question 12

Nominal Group Technique

Answer 12

Brainstorming session wherein ideas are prepared by having a prior session of solitary writing
Ideas are numbered then anonymously ranked

Question 13

Convergent Thinking

Answer 13

Thinking that proceeds toward a single answer

Question 14

Divergent Thinking

Answer 14

Moves outward from the problem in many directions and involves thinking without boundaries
No single right answer

Question 15

Exploration

Answer 15

Activities such as search, variation, risk taking, experimentation, play, flexibility, discovery, and innovation

Question 16

Exploitation

Answer 16

Refinement, choice, production, efficiency, selection, implementation, and execution of an idea

Question 17

Brief Breaks

Answer 17

Short breaks halfway through brainstorming session increase productivity following the break

Question 18

Stepladder Technique

Answer 18

Decision-making technique in which team members are added one by one to a team

Question 19

Delphi Technique

Answer 19

Ideas submitted through online portal and judged anonymously

Team members do not interact face-to-face at any point in the process

Question 20

Diversified Team and Creativity

Answer 20

Teams generate more arguments
Apply greater number of strategies
Detect more novel solutions
Better at integrating multiple perspecitves

Question 21

Membership Change and Creativity

Answer 21

Higher fluency and Flexibility because of shifting perspectives

Question 22

Organizational Networking and Creativity

Answer 22

Fluid group boundaries lead to more creativity than rigid group boundaries