Mooc 3: What is creativity and how can it be enhanced? Flashcards
1
Q
What are three measures used for divergent thinking?
A
- Fluency: The number of ideas
- Originality
- Flexibility
2
Q
What makes people creative?
A
- Expertise
- Motivation
- Creative thinking skills
3
Q
What are three tools to enhance creativity?
A
- Left-right brain alteration
- SCAMPER
- Design thinking
4
Q
What is the left-right brain alteration?
A
The right side is good at creativity, the left is good at math
This processes switches between the two
5
Q
What is SCAMPER?
A
These are questions to ask when thinking creatively
- Substitute
- Combine
- Adapt
- Magnify, modify or minify
- Put in other use
- Eliminate
- reverse re-arrange
- asks people would normally not consider
- complete overview of possibilities of product
6
Q
What is design thinking?
A
Trying to understand the customer through observations
- Empathize
- Define
- Ideate
- Prototype
- Test
7
Q
What is production blocking and evaluation apprehension?
A
Production blocking: The attention of groups is easily diverted
Evaluation apprehension: Group members think that there idea is not as good and therefore do not voice them
8
Q
What is the nominal group technique?
A
- Facilitator welcomes everyone
- Everyone has to generate own ideas in silence
- People hare ideas one by one and discuss
- Made sure everyone understands ideas
- Ideas are ranked to see which ones to use
9
Q
What is the systematic, inventive thinking (SIT)?
A
- Task unification
- Multiplication
- Subtraction
- Division
- Attribute dependency
