CREATIVITY
Concept and Definitions
About creativity
Testing
Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
What to Test
Fluency (many ideas)
Flexibility (different kind)
Originality (novelty)
elaboration (expound on ones's thinking)
increased until 3rd grade, dropped dramatically after 5th
Strong predictor of success, better than IQ
Clasic Definitions
Creativity is the production of original ideas that are made useful or have value.
Bringing something new into being
Ruth Noller: Creativity(attitude, ideaGeneration(knowledge, imagination, evaluation)
Einstein: Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thought what no else has thoungt
Steve Jobs: "Creativity is just connecting things.
"When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things."
Getting out of the box. Creativity is the ability to modify self-imposed constraints.