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PSYO 317 Creativity
Psychology of Creativity
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/12/2013

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Term
What is Creativity?
Definition
it is an innovative, unconventional approach to life that guides problem solving, invention, and other forms of expression
Term

Define:

Discovery

Invention

Creation

Definition

discovery is to find something that is already present in the world and share it. invention is to unearth something that was not present before. creation is to unearth and share something that was not present before and is profoundly personal.

Term

Define

Exploratory Creativity

Transformational Creativity

Definition

Exploratory creativity is considering the possibilities and finding the right one. Transformation creativity is changing that space of possibilities. 

Term
The Four P's of Creativity
Definition

Person

Process

Product

Place

Term
Wallas' Four Stages
Definition

Preparation

Incubation

Insight

Verification

Term
Problems with Wallas' Four Stage Theory
Definition
It is merely descriptive in nature. Linearity in the creative process has been largely discredited.
Term

What is 

"The Gap"

Definition
It is those things that your thoughts repeatedly come back to; something that needs to be expressed, examined, played with, or understood.
Term

Name the 

12 Theories 

of Creativity

Definition

1. mystical

2. psychodynamic

3. developmental/personality

4. psychmetric

5. economic

6. stage and componential process

7. cognitive

8. problem solving/expertise based

9. problem finding

10. evolutionary

11. typological/historimetric

12. system approach

Term

Explain the

Mystical Theory

 

Definition
This was the earliest approach to creativity. A creative person was seen as an empty vessel that a divine being filled/possessed with inspiration.
Term

Explain the

Psychodynamic Theory

 

Definition

This was the Freudian approach. Creativity was the mind's way of resolving conflict between unconscious desires and reality in a publicly acceptable form. 

This involves associative thought, adaptive regression, and preconscious interactions. 

Term
Adaptive Regression
Definition
intrusion of unmodulated thoughts into consciousness that occurs during creative problem solving as well as fantasy, intoxication, sleep, and psychotic episodes.
Term
Preconscious
Definition

The state between conscious and unconscious in which thoughts are loose and vague but interpretable. 

 

(this is viewed as the source of creativity in the psychodynamic theory)

Term

Explain the 

Developmental/Personality Theory

Definition

Creative potential unfolds over a lifeti,e through interactions between character traits of a person and the environment they are within. 

It is thus affected by culture and upbringing. 

Term

Explain the

Psychometric Theory

Definition

Creativity can be measured reliably and validly and is studied in every day subjects by giving them simple divergent thinking tasks.

The assumption is that creativity can be developed.

Term

Torrance's Test of Creative Thinking

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advantage/disadvantage

Definition

a standardized scale for comparing individuals' creativity using verbal and figural tasks. 

 

a: easy to administer, objectively scoreable

d: tasks are criticized as trivial and inadequate

Term

Explain the

Economic Theory

Definition

Buy low

Sell high

 

Creative thinkers are like good investors. This theory assumes that ideas are already in existance and just need to be marketed. 

Term

Explain the

Stage and Componential Process Theory

Definition

Involves use of the Wallas' four stage theory.

and 

Amabile's Componential Model: There are three core features of individual creativity which include domain-relevant, creativity-relevant skills, and intrinsic motivation. 

Term

Explain the

Cognitive Theory

Definition

Focus on the cognitive processes of retrieval, association, analogy, metaphor, concept combination, categorical reduction, and meta cognition. 

Involves the Geneplor Model

Term
Geneplor Model
Definition
the two main processing phases to the creative process are to generate and explore.
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