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On Defining Creativity
Götz. I.
1981, Online Journal, The American Society for
Aesthetics.
Many definitions of creativity differ and often get
the term confused with others, such as originality, research procedures,
discovery, insight or communication.
Large bodies of research that claim to make aspects of
creativity clearer whilst only starting on either an ambiguous definition or no
definition at all of creativity - assumption is that everyone knows what
creativity means, or that any definition will do.
Creativity =/= originality. "When a person makes
something, there should be no question that he/she has been creative"
Stages of creative process: 1. preparation. 2.
incubation. 3. insight. 4. verification. 5. product. 6. evaluation.
"creativity is the process or activity of
deliberately concretizing insight."
creativity is often mistakenly identified as
incubation.
Karen Kersting, What exactly is creativity?
2003, American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/creativity.aspx
Tradition psychological definition of creativity has tow
parts: originality and functionality.
Difference between creativity and Creativity.
creativity = everyday problem-solving and the ability
to adapt to change.
Creativity = solving a problem r creating an object
that has a major impact on how other people think, feel and live.
Major criteria is how much restraint is in the
creative process - artists often come from chaotic environments with little
structure.
Environmental factors such as freedom, support and
positive challenge foster creativity.
The Art of Thought, Wallas 1926
Creative Management. 2nd Edn. Henry, Jane, 2001
http://www.rbs0.com/create.htm
Ronald B. Standler
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm
What is Creativity?
Collection of definitions from different authors
Three reasons why people are motivated to be creative:
1.
Need for novel, varied and complex stimulation
2.
Need to communicate ideas and values
3.
Need to solve problems
(Robert Franken, Human Motivation DATE NEEDED pg 396)
"All who study creativity agree that for
something to be creative, it is not enough for it to be novel: it must have
value or be appropriate to the cognitive demands of teh situation."
(Robert Weisberg, Creativity - Beyond the Myth of
Genius DATE NEEDED pg 4)
Common uses of creativity:
4.
People who express unusual thoughts, are
interesting and stimulating - people whom appear unusually bright
5.
People that see the world in novel and original
ways, people that have fresh perceptions, insightful judgements and may make
important discoveries.
6.
People that change our culture in some
important way, their achievements are public. (pg 25-26)
"Creativity is any act, idea, or product that
changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new
one" (pg 26)
Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, Creativity 0 Flow and the
Psychology of Discovery and Invention DATE NEEDED
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/serendipia/Serendipia-Preti.html
A gift of saturn: Creativity and Psychopathology
Anotonio Preti, 2003, Serendip
Creativity is the capacity to bring together knowledge
and imagination, it can be defined in as many ways as it can be conceived.
Creativity is considered in terms of the
characteristics of the creative product and social aknowledgement. It can be
considered in it's own context: the difficulty of the problem resolves or
identified and the elegance of the solution proposed aswell as the impact of
the product. It can also be conceieved on the basis of the abilities that
favour it, i.e skill or aptitude. <- Frank Barron, leading researcher on
creativity.
"The expression of creativity is not the result
of a single act, like an answer to a question or the resolution of a problem,
but derives from a process which imples many different phases."
