Title: ??The concept, scope and theory of creative thinking.
1Creative Thinking
- ??The concept, scope and theory of creative
thinking. - Creative personality.
2Etimology
- Creare (to create) krainein (to fulfill).
- 16, 17 18 century (sciences, art, literature,
poem, novel etc.). - 19th century - Creatum/Create (to produce/to
make) (the finished product) vs (an ongoing
process).
3Creativity Create gt creativity creative
thinking Creative thinking is the ability to
bring something of new existence. (Websters
Dictionary 1976) Creativity is the making of new
and rearranging of the old. (Mike Vance,
1995) Being creative is seeing the same thing as
everybody else but thinking of something
different. (Wycoff, 1995) Something or some
process that is original, novel, newly thought
of, and in some cases as being useful. (Amabile,
1999)
4- Looking at what everybody else is looking but
thinking of what nobody else has thought
(A.S Goyrgy) - Bringing together ideas that were previously
unrelated - The process of producing something is both
original worthwhile - (Sternberg, 1996)
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- Bringing together ideas that were previously
unrelated - David Perkins (1996)
- An idea is creative if that person (the creator)
could not have had that idea before. - Margaret Boden (1990)
- Creativity is the ability to produce work that
is novel (original, unexpected), high in quality
and appropriate (Lubart, 1994 Osche 1990
Sternberg 1999) - Creativity is extra/ordinary, original and
fitting, full-filling, in(ter)ventive,
co-coperative, un/conscious, fe/male,
recreation. (Rob Pope, 2005)
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6CREATIVE THINKING CRITICAL THINKING ORDINARY
THINKING
7Creativity approaches
- Mystical approaches
- Pragmatic approaches
- Psychodynamic approaches
- Psychometric approaches
- Cognitive approaches
- Social-personality approaches
- Confluence approaches
- (Sternberg Lubart, 1999)
8Mystical approaches
- Associate to mystical belief and spirituality
e.g. Daemon inside the writers pen. - Creative person empty vessel (a divine would
fill with inspiration). - Without scientific spirit.
9Pragmatic approaches
- Lacking of (or no) scientific study
(psychological theory) while focus on the
commercial success. - e.g. Edward de Bono who concern on the practice,
not the theory, Osborn (brainstorming), von Oech
(role adopting) etc.
10Edward de Bono (1)
- Popular with ideas and concepts of lateral
thinking (vs. vertical thinking), PMI, PO
(provocative operation hypothesis, suppose,
possible poetry), Six Hats (green hat gt
creative). - de Bono Do not ever say TINA (there is no
alternatives).
11Edward de Bono (2)
- Books
- I am Right You Are Wrong (1990).
- Handbook for the Positive Revolution (1991).
- Six Action Shoes (1992).
- Serious Creativity (1992).
- Sur/petition (1992) etc.
12Psychodynamic approaches
- Creativity arises from the tension between
conscious reality and unconscious drives. - However it is still lacking of scientific spirit,
more rely on case study.
13Psychometric approaches
14Cognitive approaches
15Social-personality approaches
16Confluence approaches
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19Creativity exercises
- List 20 usages of
- paper clip
- ball-pen.
- Anagram games.
20Creativity IQ
- Many creative persons have average IQs no
correlation between intelligence and
creativity.
21Creativity academic achievement (1)
22Creativity academic achievement (2)
23Creativity families (1)
24Creativity families (2)
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26TYPES of CREATIVITY
H Creativiti (C)(20 40 years old)S
Creativity (c) Boden (1998)
27- BIG C
- Sublime creativity
- Kreativiti agung
- Kreativiti primer
- Small c
- Everyday creativity
- Minor creativity
28FUNCTION of CREATIVITY
IDEA
DISCOVERY
INNOVATION
DECISION MAKING
INVENTION
PROBLEM SOLVING
29Pseudo creativity
30SOURCES of CREATIVITY
- GOD
- Knowledge
- Experiences skills
- Readings
- Environment
- Creative figures
31Csikszentmihalyi What we call creativity is
constructed through and interaction between
producers and audiences. Creativity is not the
product of single individuals, but of social
systems making judgements about individuals
product.
32The word success is an ambiguous word. Success
with respect to the outside? Or success with
respect to oneself? And if it is a success with
respect to the outside, then how do you evaluate
it? Very often outside success is irrelevant,
wrong, and misplaced. So how can one talk about
it? Externally, you may think I am successful
because people write about some aspects of my
work. But that is an external judgment. And I
have no idea as to how to value that
judgment. Success is not one of my motives.
Because success stands in contrast to failure.
But not worthwhile effort in ones life is either
a success or a failure. What do you mean by
success? You take a problem and you want to solve
it. Well, if you solve it, in a limited sense it
is a success. But it may be a trivial problem. So
a judgment about success is not something about
which Ive ever been serious about in any sense
whatever. (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the
Nobel laureate physicist American he wrote
The Mathematically Theory of Black Holes (1983),
Truth and Beauty Aesthetics and Motivations in
Science (1987) etc.)
33Creative personality (1)
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality by Frank
Barron (1969). - The Psychoticism Scale of the Eysenck
Personality Questionnaire by Eysenck (1995). - Robert Alan Black and 32 Traits of Creative
People.
34Creative personality (2)