Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Graham Wallas, Cognitive Training, Divergent Thinking
12 Mar 2018
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Preparation preparatory work on a problem that focuses the individual"s mind on the problem and explores problem"s dimensions. Incubation problem is internalized and nothing appears externally to be happening. Intimation feeling that a solution is imminent. Illumination or insight creative idea arrives suddenly into conscious awareness. Verification idea is consciously verified, elaborated and then applied. Sensitivity noticing relevant information: creative people might notice more things as they have broad attentional deployment (individuals with add) Synergy bringing together two unrelated domains. Serendipity happy accidents: alexander fleming and discovery of penicillin, happy accidents only matter when someone notices them and realizes what has happened. Creativity sometimes means creating new problems, one of the best ways to be creative is to create a new problem that you have a solution to. Quality ideas that are useful, high quality. Mystical approach: divine or otherworldly, not amenable to science, hard for scientific work to shake these deep-seated views.
