PSYC 3550 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Divergent Thinking, Variance, Neuroticism
12 Oct 2018
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Lecture 1- Introduction
Just Suppose
Just suppose you could walk on air or fly without being in an airplane, what problems might this
create?
➢ Running into birds
➢ Air Traffic
➢ The transportation system would lose money
➢ Sunburn/Skin cancer
➢ Eradicate Boarders
➢ Safety Concerns
What is Creativity?
• Improv is creative because it involves making an original scene/idea from a small cue,
and there could be many possibilities of end products and the thought processes that
brought them to that same end product
• My definition: Creativity is when someone creates an end product from a smaller
idea/cue. There are many possibilities of what the end product could have been, and
many different thought process sequences that could have occurred for the individual to
have arrived at their end product
• There is no clear definition of creativity, so it is difficult to have common parameters for
researchers to be able to compare their research to
Creativity Definitions: Functional (clear parameters) -> Structural (more inclusive)
• Amabile- the quality of product or responses judged to be creative by appropriate
observers, and can also be regarded as the process by which something so judged is
produced (FUNCTIONAL)
• Sulvia et al.- Comprised of 3 facets: uncommonness, remoteness, and cleverness
(FUNCTIONAL)
• Rogers- the dynamic co-creation between the uniqueness of the individual, and the
materials, event, people, or circumstances in their life (STRUCTURAL)
Benefits of Creativity
• Generating novel solutions/products may enhance job performance or general daily
tasks
o Artificial pancreas
o Orange-Fleshed sweet potato
• Improve Well-Being
o Decreases negative mood
o Decrease Symptomatology
• Society: Can result in new empirical findings, artistic movements, and solutions to social
problems
o Medicare
o Robot that detects water pipe leaks (reduces water wastage)
• Society: Can draw attention to important issues
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How do we Measure Creativity?
Creativity Exercise: There Is a Man and a Dog
• There’s a oy ith his dog, alkig alog the pier y the eah. The dog
is alkig o his hid legs, ad holdig the oy’s had. The oy ad the
dog are talking about how funny it is that everyone is looking at them as
if their companionship is odd. Little do they know, someday humans and
dogs will be walking and talking together as a normality. Charlie and his
dog, Loki, are from the future, and they arrived here through a portal
found at the centre eye of the ferris-wheel at the amusement park on
that same pier that they are walking along. They came back to the past
to try to sae Loki’ soul ate fro eig put up for adoptio y a
owner who no longer wanted her.
• Since there is no agreed definition of what creativity is, it is difficult to
agree upon a best measure that remains reliable across different
operational definitions of creativity
Creativity Tests
• Self-report inventories
o Creative Personality Scale (30 adjectives)
▪ 18 adjectives indicate creative personality
▪ 12 adjectives indicate a non-creative personality
▪ Low face validity- the adjeties do’t eessarily
ostitute a reatie persoality
▪ Low Reliability- positive items have good reliability while
then negative items did not
▪ Meaning of the terms is not clear (broad)
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