Creativity is Forever
Edition: 6
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 366
Edition: 6
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 364
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Understanding creativity can help you unlock your own creative potential
Creativity is Forever provides a broad survey of the major terms, tenants, and theories of the construct of creativity while offering specific opportunities for readers integrate this knowledge into exercises and activities designed to enhance learning and encourage transfer of creative thinking skills across a variety of fields or college majors.
Creativity is Forever, Sixth Edition by Gary Davis and Jay Woodward:
- Integrates current research findings to convey fundamentals and fun facts about creativity
- Updates chapter listings to align with an “Introduction to Creativity” style college course, incorporating general knowledge about the construct of creativity; perspectives of creativity specific to the creative person, process, product, and press; and applications of creativity specific to creative thinking models and modules.
- Incorporates pop culture references and humor to enhance readability and encourage engagement with the material
- Challenges the reader to apply their own creative thinking skills via introspective and reflective chapter prompts and questions.
Chapter 1 Creativity Definitions and Theories
What Is Creativity?
Definitions of Creativity
Creative Person
Creative Process
Creative Product
Creative Press
Mysterious Mental Happenings
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 2 Creativity Approaches
Theoretical Approaches
Psychoanalytic Theories
Behaviorist Theories
Cognitive Theories
Humanistic Theories
Component-Based Theories of Creativity
Contemporary Theories of Creativity
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 3 Creativity Blocks and Barriers: Impediments to creativity
Habit and Learning
Rules and Traditions
Perceptual Blocks
Cultural Blocks
Emotional Blocks
Resource Barriers
Creativity Out of Whack?
Idea Squelchers
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 4 The Creative Person: Flexible, funny, and full of energy
Personality Traits, Abilities, Biographical Characteristics
Similarities and Differences 59 Creativity and Intelligence: The Threshold Concept
Personality Traits
Negative Creative Traits
Berkeley Studies
Creativity and Mental Disturbance
Biographical Characteristics
Birth Order and Handedness
Creative Abilities
Information Processing Traits
Creativity and Eminence
Abraham Tannenbaum: The Star Model
Herbert Walberg: Classic Characteristics of Eminence
Benjamin Bloom and Lauren Sosniak: Parental Support, Individualized Instruction, Communities of Practice
David Feldman: Precocity, Available Knowledge, and Co-Incidence Theory
Dean Keith Simonton: Many Factors
Cultivating a More Creative Personality
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 5 Creative Process
Where Do Ideas Come from?
One Process or Many?
Creative Process: Insight, Chance, or Hard Work?
Steps and Sequences
The Wallas Model
Feedback Loops and the Creative Process
The Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) Model
CPS: The Original Model
CPS: An Updated Model (Version 6.1)
A Two-Stage Analysis
The Creative Process as a Change in Perception
The Imagery–Creativity Connection
Imagery and the Creative Process
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 6 Creative Inspiration and Analogical Thinking
Importance of Analogical Thinking
Is “Borrowing” Ideas Ethical?
Analogical Thinking in Creative Innovation
Music
Cartoons
Architecture, Clothes Design
Analogical Thinking in Problem Solving
Synectics Methods
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 7 Creative Products
Creative Product: A Definition
Essential Characteristics of Creative Products
Evaluation of Creative Products
Creative Product Analysis Matrix (CPAM)
Categorization of Creative Contributions
Little c Creativity
Propulsion Model—Categorizing Creative Contributions
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 8 Creative Applications, Pt. 1—Brainstorming and Creative Problem-Solving
Personal Creative Thinking Techniques
Standard Creative Thinking Techniques
Brainstorming
Variations on Brainstorming
Attribute Listing
Morphological Synthesis
Idea Checklists
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 9 Creativity Applications, Pt. 2—Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats
Lateral Thinking
Six Thinking Hats
Lateral Thinking Strategies
Specific Situations
Teaching Thinking Skills to Children
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 10 Creativity Assessment
Psychometrics
Uses of Creativity Tests
Issues in Measuring Creativity
Reliability and Validity in Creativity Assessment
Reliability
Validity
High IQ as an Indicator of Creative Potential
Formal Identification: Inventories and Tests
Creative Personality Inventories
Assessing Past Creative Activities
Divergent Thinking Tests
Recommendations
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 11 Creativity in Education
Joyce Junetune
Creativity in Gifted Education
Definitions of Giftedness
Characteristics of Gifted Students
Identification of Gifted Students
Goals and Curricula of Programs for the Gifted
Acceleration, Differentiation, and Enrichment Alternatives
Enrichment Triad Model
Summary
Review Exercises
Chapter 12 Creativity Is Forever: Unlocking Your Creative Potential
Educating for Creative Thinking and Problem-Solving
Issues in Creativity Training
This Book So Far
Self-Actualization and Creativity
Self-Actualized Creativity and Special Talent Creativity
Creativity Consciousness and Creative Attitudes
Metacognitive Understanding of Creativity
Exercising Creative Abilities
Creative Thinking Techniques
Involvement in Creative Activities
Summary
Review Exercises