Lecture 10 - Openness, Psychoticism, Creativity And Genius

Question 1

What are the two types of creativity?

Answer 1

Superficial and deep

Question 2

Which type of creativity links to openness? And is helped by intelligence overall?

Answer 2

Superficial

Question 3

Give some examples of superficial creativity? How do we normally come about this kind of superficial creativity?

Answer 3

Fashion, pop music, art - anything mass media

We learn this kind of creativity, a lot of it is trial and error, involving novelty and uses ore-developed strategies

Question 4

What underpins deep creativity?

Answer 4

Psychoticism and is helped by high intelligence

Question 5

Who do we normally associate with deep creativity?

Answer 5

Geniuses, they manage to derive something new hat is not directly derived from the past - originality

Question 6

List a few people you would consider genius

Answer 6

Beethoven, Shakespeare, Rembrandt

Newton and Darwin, both sparked scientific revolution

Question 7

How is superficial creativity selected for in the population?

Answer 7

Likely to be sexually selected, a similar idea to the peacocks tail, the better you are at creativity like that the more mates or the higher quality mate you are able to acquire

Question 8

How is deep creativity selected into the population?

Answer 8

Likely something to do with group selection. The individual geniuses reproduction success is diminished, but the benefit the overall groups reproductive success.

Question 9

What are 6 qualities associated with someone who is high in openness?

Answer 9

1. Active imagination
2. Aesthetic sensitivity
3. Attentive to inner feelings
4. Neophile
5. Intellectual curiosity
6. Political views are progressive and normally left wing

Question 10

List 6 traits that are associated with people who are high in psychoticism

Answer 10

1. Cold and impersonal
2. Unempathetic and egotistical
3. Defiant, eccentric, aggressive
4. Independent and asocial
5. Impulsive (not conscientious)
6. Thinking style is dream like or associative

Question 11

What does high psychoticism correlate with? (4)

Answer 11

Correlated with:
Increased rate of psychotic illness
Psychopathic personality disorder
Alcoholism / binge drinking
Addictions

Question 12

What are the 3Is of psychoticism ?

Answer 12

Intelligence
Intuition
Inner motivation

Question 13

explain intelligence as one of the 3Is

Answer 13

High intelligence implies good genes, few deleterious mutations and provides evidence for a highly efficient brain.

Those high in psychoticism and creativity are often very intelligent

Question 14

Explain how intuitive thinking is one of the 3Is

Answer 14

Intuitive thinking refers to a persons ability and likelihood to rely on inner thoughts, dreams, visualisations and hunches when they think. Not really psychotic thoughts but you are vulnerable to develop them into something more psychotic.

Question 15

Explain how inner motivation is one of 3Is

Answer 15

Sense of following a destiny or personal quest

Question 16

Which mental condition could overlap with genius a lot and within what domain?

Answer 16

Aspergers, specifically in maths and physics like Alan Turing

Question 17

What is the spread of superficial creativity like throughout the population?

Answer 17

Everyone has some form of this creativity but to a greater or lesser degree

Question 18

What is the reproductive success in modern society of those with:
High openness
High psychoticism

Answer 18

High openness leads to low reproductive success

High psychoticism / genius also leads to low reproductive success

Question 19

What abilities define creativity?

Answer 19

Problem solving, innovation, originality