Creativity
An idea or solution is considered creative if it is original, useful, and surprising
convergent thinking: opposite of divergent thinking; the capability to narrow in on the single "correct" answer or solution to a given question or problem (giving right response on intelligence test) divergent thinking: opposite of convergent thinking; the capacity for exploring multiple potential answers/solutions to a given question/problem (thinking of multiple uses for a common object) Iatent inhibition: ability to filter out extraneous stimuli, concentrating only on information that is deemed relevant. Reduced is associated with higher creativity little-c creativity: creative ideas that appear at the personal level, whether the home or workplace. such creativity needs not have a larger impact to b considered creative
openness to experience: one of the factors of the Big Five Model of personality, the factor that assesses the degree that a person is open to new values, interests, and activities Originality: when an idea or solution has a low probability of occurrence remote associations: associations between words or concepts that are semantically distant and thus relatively unusual or original
criteria for creativity: based on criteria the US patent office uses for issuing patents (original, useful, and surprising) about 10 years experience usually necessary to develop big-c creativity higher scores on openness/general intelligence: common measures for the creative person's personality Creativity criteria: originality, usefulness, surprise The first is the Remote Associates Test, or RAT, that was introduced by Mednick (1962). Mednick believed that the creative process requires the ability to associate ideas that are considered very far apart conceptually. The RAT consists of items that require the respondent to identify a word that can be associated to three rather distinct stimulus words. second measure is the Unusual Uses Task (Guilford, 1967; Torrance, 1974). Here, the participant is asked to generate alternative uses for a common object, such as a brick. The responses can be scored on fou
and (d) elaboration, the amount of detail given for the generated uses. Creativity personality scale (Gough, 1979)
Personality Traits https://nobaproject.com/textbooks/new-textbook-7e88d5df-28be-4ee4-b5b5-9cae693898d1/modules/personality-traits
Gordon Allport: lexical approach, searched the dictionary for all descriptors of personality with Odbert Agreeableness: reflects a person's tendency to be compassionate, cooperative, warm, and caring to others Conscientiousness: reflects a person's tendency to be careful, organized, hardworking, and to follow rules Extraversion: reflects a person's tendency to be sociable, outgoing, active, and assertive Neuroticism: reflects the tendency to be interpersonally sensitive and tendency to experience negative emotions like anxiety, fear, sadness, and anger
continuous distributions: characteristics can go from low to high, with all different intermediate values possible Facets: more specific, lower-level units of personality
Independent: two characteristics or traits are separate from one another Iexical hypothesis: Gordon Allport + Henry Odbert, all important personality characteristics should be reflected in the language that we use to describe other people Personality: enduring predispositions that characterize a person personality traits: enduring predispositions in behavior that show differences across individuals, and which tend to characterize the person across varying types of situations
situationist critique: started the