Richards (2015)

Question 1

“Real scientist”

Answer 1

Brings investigative ingenuity, and courage and integrity that permit a challenging of the status quo. A vision not distorted by public opinion or bias

Question 2

Psi

Answer 2

Defined as involving interactions between organisms and their environment that appear to transcend the physical and biological demarcations of Western science

Question 3

Parapsychology

Answer 3

A scientific discipline that studies psi

Question 4

Creative product

Answer 4

Defined using criteria of originality and meaningfulness

Question 5

Creative process

Answer 5

The means by which we bring the new product into existence. It can be seen as one potential antidote to narrow-minded thinking

Question 6

Taboo

Answer 6

Either sacred or, dangerous or forbidden. They all serve the same goal, which is preservation of the status quo. They can be so powerful or frightening, that they bring about major defensive maneuvers. A taboo can also operate on an unconscious level, before we can even consciously consider the issues, or what is at stake if we avoid them

Question 7

Counterintuitive psychology research

Answer 7

Made readers concerned and skeptical. Led to refusal and rejection of something that seemed so unlikely. Even though the research had been validated; knee-jerk dismissal

Question 8

Individual with a more creative process

Answer 8

More aware, open, nondefensive, and dynamically oriented. Such creative functioning, as part of daily life, shows similarities to features of Maslow’s self-actualising creativity

Question 9

Appreciation

Answer 9

Can call on creative vision, openness to alternatives, flexible adaptations to, and changes in our lives and values

Question 10

Cultural creatives

Answer 10

Value newer healthier, and more sustainable lifestyles, and embrace varied innovations

Question 11

The Butterfly Effect

Answer 11

In general, when enough people, or enough influential people, accept a change, it may become a new norm

Question 12

Creative dissociation

Answer 12

Includes the mind’s evolved ability to escape, transform, and possibly transcend the limitations of ordinary reality

Question 13

Latent inhibition

Answer 13

A gatekeeper to select the most immediate and practical information. Lowered for people with schizophrenia

Question 14

Magical thinking

Answer 14

Framed as being “inconsistent with subcultural norms (superstitiousness, telepath, or “sixth sense)”

Question 15

Chaos/catastrophe theory

Answer 15

Shows many small stamps before a big shift