PSYC 4030 Lecture 2: Creativity
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Innovation: traditional views of creativity, people who are creative are different than everyday people ( genius", early focus on personality difference. Problem: correlation doesn"t equal causation: currently researchers distinguish between big c (major works) and little c (everyday creativity) Big c (famous people, noble prize winders) Little c (everyday creativity; idea for work: creative thought brought by a sudden insight, wallas (1926) stages of creativity. Preparation: work and think about problem. Incubation: step away from it; not actively solving problem. Illumination: where you have your insight ah ha moment you have the answer. Verification: make sure idea actually solves the problem d. If you forget a stragety that doesn"t work e. Insight /illumination: walas thought feeling happened in a flash; ah-ha experience; emerges suddenly, metcalfe and wiebe (1987, study. How warm you are to the answer : participants works on insight problems and analutic problems, as they"re working on problem, they rated progress using a.
