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CRTV 301 Drexel
Quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Guilford | APA President; Creativity is a universal trait that ought to be studied. |
| Torrance | Created tests of creative thinking/divergent thinking skills. |
| Convergent Thinking | Identifies a few ideas best suited for action |
| Individualist Theory of Creativity | New mental combination that is expressed in the world; aka "little c" creativity |
| Sociocultural Theory of Creativity | The generation of a product that is judged to be novel and also to be appropriate, useful, our valuable by a suitably knowledgeable social group; aka "big c" creativity |
| Taylor's Five Types of Creativity | Expressive Innovative Emergentive Inventive Productive |
| Rhodes's "Four P" Framework | Product, Person, Process, Press |
| Divergent Thinking | Identifies many ideas, some suited for action, some not |
| Fluency | Ability to create a number (many) of divergent ideas |
| Flexibility | Ability to create a variety (different) of divergent ideas |
| Originality | Ability to create unique ideas |
| Elaboration | Ability to create detailed or fully formed ideas. |
| Threshold Theory | Creativity requires above-average intelligence; extremely high intelligence may limit creativity |
| Psychometric | Measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits |
| Cognitive/Biometric | Measuring mental processes and traits |
| Sociocultural | Measuring the impact of customs, beliefs, values, and language |
| Historiometric | Measurement of traits through indirect resources such as documents and anecdotal accounts |
| "T-Shaped" Students | Broad knowledge of a number of disciplines combined with detailed knowledge of a specific discipline (can help create divergence and more creative solutions to problems) |