Week 3
Tuesday
Did you feel the creativity test accurately measured your own creativity? Explain.
Can people be intelligent without being creative? Explain
For work to be considered creative, it must satisfy certain conditions. Creative work must be novel and useful. In other words, it must be unique and highly valued providing a solution to problems. Study of creativity can use psychometric studies of creativity, case studies of creative individuals, historiometric and experimental studies. Also, creativity has many theories, and most of the theories follow certain stages of preparation, incubation, insight, and verification. On the contrary, stages of creativity face several criticisms. For instance, considering the complexity of creativity, it cannot fit into stages. Further the single linear process cannot result in a creative product, but it is the result of many intermediate mini insights informing each other. Also, the two processes of problem formulation and solution are not distinct as old answers create new answers. Further, reworking and revision of ideas are essential to the process. Therefore, the linear model is not appropriate and better than applying a cyclical model.
Creativity correlates to some factors. Creativity relates to socio-economic, biology and personality. For example, it relates to intelligence which their link is high. The steps that take place in the creative process are the same as those in the intelligence process. Their relationship is confusing creating questions whether the two are the same thing or if they are subsets of each other. In brief, creativity correlates to several factors.
The creativity test accurately measures my creativity because of the scoring components. The test uses originality, flexibility and fluency components in giving scores according to the questions which measure the level of thinking. By way of illustration, originality measures how unusual or original are the responses. Flexibility measures how many different categories of responses are relevant. Lastly, fluency of the responses is the total number of meaningful, interpretable and relevant ideas.
To summarize, people can be intelligent without being creative. Creativity requires someone to go beyond the intelligence frame and to capitalize on the connection of concepts. Therefore, people can be intelligent without being creative when they do not go beyond intelligence frame.
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Thursday
Do you believe that creativity is more domain-specific or domain-general?
The propensity to invent is highly predictive by the children characteristics at birth. These characteristics include gender, race and socioeconomic class. Whites are three times likely to invent than the blacks. Those that are born to one percent top families are ten times more likely to invent than those who are born into families in the bottom fifty percent. Also, eighty-two percent of 40 years old inventors are men. It happens like that because people differ in talents, personality traits, and career preferences. For instance, college enrollment and 8th-grade math score explain the gap of innovation where rich people kids innovate because of going to better schools and getting better grades.
A Sociocultural force influences creativity in the sense of big C. When a group is less constrained economically, culturally and socially it appears to have more creative output. Therefore, socio-cultural forces to some extent define big C. The dominant society defines value and appropriateness hence big C creativity innovation can be valuable and appropriate in such a society. For instance, when culture is mainstream, it cannot see Polka music as being creative. Also, cultures must find creative works as novel and appropriate. Therefore, mediation of creativity is because of the culture of the society.
Creativity is more domain-specific than domain general. Creativity is more than a personality trait or intelligence. It is misleading to think about creativity as a set of general domain skills that one can broadly apply broadly like a special kind of general personality or intelligence. Creativity is an expertise that can enrich and guide the work for those who nature certain creativity.