CREATIVITY IN GROUPS Flashcards
According to Kelly Morr (2019), it is the ability to transcend traditional ways
of thinking or acting, and to develop new
and original ideas, methods or objects
Creativity
Gold, Rich, and John Antonelli interpreted
it as not just making things (factories do that), it’s creating new things, things that have never existed before.
Creativity
- defined as two or more
individuals who are connected to
one another by socialrelationships. - a fundamental part of
social life. As we will see they can be very small – just two people – or very large.
Groups
➔ The most common type people
associate the term creativity with
➔ They think outside the box, and
generate new ideas
➔ Non-traditional
➔ Problem solvers, innovators, and
inventors
Lateral Thinking
➔ Usually always have the
“Light-bulb/aha moment”
➔ Researchers consider this as
“higher creativity”
➔ Spontaneous, and quick thinkers
➔ Oftentimes get inspiration from
dreams or other states
Inspirational Thinking
➔ Flexible, fluent, and original
➔ Brainstorms often
➔ Takes risks, and explore many
possibilities
➔ The opposite of convergent
thinker which mainly focuses on
one idea only
Divergent Thinking
➔ Discovers and creates outputs
that are pleasing to the senses
➔ Strong visual and spatial skills
➔ Involves creation of anything artsy
and beautiful
➔ Form, color, shape, and even rhythm
Aesthetic Thinking
➔ Well-organized, and systematic
➔ Good at keeping things in order
and running operations smoothly
➔ Has the ability to discover the
interrelatedness of things;
“connected the dots”.
Systematic Thinking
Exaggeration is what type of creativity?
Divergent Thinking
Out-of-the-box is what type of creativity?
Lateral Thinking
Beauty and taste is what type of creativity?
Aesthetic Thinking
Synthesis towards a whole is what type of creativity?
Systematic Thinking
Emergent, radical insight is what type of creativity?
Inspirational Thinking
Enumerate the creative group process by Graham Wallas
- Preparation
- Incubation
- Illumination
- Verification
Enumerate the four basic rules in brainstorming by Osborn
- Focus on quantity
- Withhold criticism
- Welcome unusual ideas
- Combine and improve ideas