Sternberg (2021) Flashcards
Transformational creativity
The creativity that is deployed to make a positive, meaningful, and potentially enduring difference to the world. Can be directed inward, outward, or both ways. The world needs more of this type. Often also transactionally creative, but go beyond
Transactional creativity
Creativity deployed in search of a reward, whether externally or internally generated. Some may be inert. Reward can be extrinsic or intrinsic. Creativity is often intrinsic but can still be transactional
Pseudo-transformational creativity
Offered by the creator as making the world a better place, when in fact its goal is to improve the lot of the person who is pseudo-transformationally creative
Intelligence
Typically defined as the ability to adapt, reason, and learn
Creativity
Usually defined as the ability to produce novel and useful ideas
Wisdom
Defined as the ability to find a common good, to balance interests, to balance intellectual and emotional responses, and to recognise one’s intellectual and other limitations
Culturally embedded
Experts; meaning they are experts within a cultural context
Rieko
Very close to what conventional Western intelligence tests measure, especially knowledge and analytical cognitive skills
Luoro
Involves practical skills, including respect for others
Paro
Involves initiative and trying new things and is similar in many respects to creativity
Winjo
Involves understanding the various elements and their interrelations in complex situations and is similar to wisdom. These elements form the basis for a broad Western theory of adaptive intelligence
Creativity (Kenya)
Perceived more broadly than in the West. It involves imagination but also an ethical element
Transformational giftedness
Builds on the concepts of transformational and transactional leadership. Motivated by the desire to make a positive, meaningful, and potentially enduring difference to the world. May also be transactionally gifted
Giftedness
Builds on the concepts of transformational and transactional leadership. The idea is that giftedness can be divided into two kinds: transactional and transformational
Transactional giftedness
Motivated by exchange. They are identified as gifted, and in exchange, give something back, e.g. high grades, so that the criteria used to identify them can be viewed as valid
Negative/dark creativity
Refers to antisocial uses of creativity
Positive/light creativity
The generation of an idea that is novel and useful or effective in some way, but that also serves a constructive function. Problematic term since it is always relative to the standard of some group. Kenyan definition focuses on a common good
Unidentified creativity - Type 1
The individual is never identified as creative despite their creative potential
Inert creativity - Type 2
The individual fails to act creatively even though they were identified as creative or hired because they were deemed to be creative. Tests are only modest predictors
Fully transactional creativity - Type 3
The individual gives back creatively in exchange for being identified as, or employed to be creative
Self-transformational creativity - Type 4
The individual transforms themselves creatively but does not seek to transform others.
Other-transformational creativity - Type 5
The individual creatively transforms others but not themselves, e.g. Sylvia Plath
Fully transformational creativity - Type 6
The individual creatively transforms both themselves and others
Self-destructive pseudo-transformational creativity - Type 7
The individual, in seeking creatively to advance themselves, destroys themselves in the process
Other-destructive pseudo-transformational creativitiy - Type 8
The individual, in seeking creatively to advance themselves, destroys others in the process
Fully destructive pseudo-transformational creativity
The individual, in seekingcreatively to advance themselves, destroys themselves and others. A form of dark creativity
