Creativity and Intelligence

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Creativity and Intelligence

• What are they?
• How can we measure them?

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Creativity

• Creativity being both novel and relevant
• Insight in problem solving as an example of
  creativity 4 stages of creative thought
• Preparation
• Incubation
• Illumination
• Verification

3
Can you measure creativity?

• Divergent productions
• Remote Associates Test (RAT)
• Judges' ratings

4
What is creativity?

• The Investment Theory of Creativity (Sternberg
  and Lubart)
• "buy low and sell high"

5
Intelligence What is it?

• What the intelligence tests measure
• Is it one thing or many?
• One thing Spearmans g
• Many things
• Thurstone -- several "primary mental abilities"
• Guilford -- 120 mental factors (operations,
  products, contents)

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Current Theories

• Gardner -- multiple intelligences
• Sternberg -- Triarchic theory
• Three basic types of intelligent behavior
• Componential -- "Book smart"
• Experiential -- "Creative intelligence"
• Contextual -- "Street smart".

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Measuring intelligence

• Binet Simon "mental age."
• "IQ"
• Problems
• Cultural bias
• School-oriented
• The approaches of Gardner and Sternberg are, at
  least in part, an attempt to address problems
  like these by broadening the concept of what it
  means to be intelligent.