PSYC 3550 Lecture 3: CREATIVITY PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE 3.odt
27 Feb 2013
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Video: creative beginnings: creativity killers, 3rd/4th grade children start to dislike school. Surveillance: evaluation, reward, competition, the four creativity killers, this only applies to children. Parents criticize: examples of exaggeration, the sun is yellow not black, the flower is bigger than the people, this hinders creativity, children have the right to the freedom of expression. Children are starved for experience (want to touch, look, and have responsibility: children using pieces of food as toys they are playing. Howard gardner: authority of psychological creativity, formed the 8 intelligences (8 different human abilities, spatial, mathematical, verbal, naturalistic, interpersonal, interpsychic (knowing yourself). Should emphasize with client to confirm their momentary state. Children expect everyone to be the bearers of joy. The first object one looks upon that day is what they become . Heavy evaluation pressure: loose motivation, we are marked on originality and yet we have no room to change anything. Creative thinking: determines what you can do.
