Creativity Flashcards
What is creativity
Abilities most characteristic of creative people
What is adaptive novelty
Creativity is a process whereby a new product emerges which is
Original
Useful
What is the creative process
Sequences of thoughts and actions that lead to a novel adaptive function
What are the steps of the creative process according to wallas
Preparation
Incubation
Inspiration
Verification
PIIV
Who says creativity = intelligence
Weisberg
Intelligence and creativity are unitary phenomenon
Who says creativity = subset of intelligence
Joy Guildford
Developed the first creativity tests
What’s the threshold theory by jauk et al
Below iq of 120 creativity correlated with intelligence
Above there was no association
Some intelligence is necessary but above the threshold it’s no longer required
Not all high iq people are creative
What did Torrance find from children in schools
High creativity low intelligence group were more likely to have an unconventional occupation (55. Vs 9%)
What did martindale say about how intelligence and creativity don’t relate
Creativity has more to do with how knowledge is accessed
What did Guildford say about convergent and divergent thinking
Convergent - one conclusion that’s unique
Divergent - much searching about or going off in different directions (creative)
What did smith ward and finke say about generative vs exploratory processes
Generative - produce novelty
Exploratory- evaluative
What did mednick define creative thinking as
The more mutually remote the elements of the new combination, the more creative the process
What are associative hierarchies (mednick)
Flat associative - all potential responses weighted equally
Steep associative- one / two responses are dominant
What’s the neurocognitive model of creativity (martindale)
Attention =most activated nodes in neural network
When attention is defocused activation is more evenly spread out across a greater number of nodes
Creative people- access attention all states more easily
Low arousal- Novel ideas
What did martindale find in his eeg studies about arousal
High scorers on measures of creative cognition showed
Low arousal in divergent thinking task
High arousal in intelligence task
