Creative Thinking

Defination of creativity:
1. Creativity is that aspect of intelligence,which is characterized by the ever new sprouting of ideas.

2. "A process of becoming sensitive to problems,deficiencies,gaps in knowledge,missing elements,disharmonies,and so on,identifying the difficulty; testing and retesting these hypothesis and possibly modifying and retesting them;and finally,communicating the results"

3.Creativity=(Knowledge*Imagination*Judgement)

4.creativiy is producing something new and original,wheras innovation is introducing something new in whatever already exists.

Approaches to Studying creativity:

(A) The Creative product (c)The creative personality
(B) The creative process (D) The creative press i.e.Environment

Level of Creativity:

1. Expressive -- Spontaneity, where originality and quality of the product are unimportant(as in children's drawing).

2. technical --- Involving skill and a new level of proficiency Inventive --Ingenuity with materials,providing combination to solve old problems in new ways
(Example: Edison's light and Bell's telephone).

3.Innovative --Basic principles are understood so that modification through alternative approaches is possible(example:jung and Adler elaborate on Freud).

4.Emergentive --involves the most abstract ideational principles or assumption underlying a body of art or science.In rare instances there is an emergence of an entirely new principle or assumptions(example:Einstein,freud,picasso).----Taylor, I.A(1975)

Creativity is"a generalized(i.e., content-free)constellation of intellectual abilities(usually designated as fluency,flexibility,originality,and ability to sense deficiencies,elaborate and redefine),personality variables,and problem-solving traits";rather than as a particularized and substantive capacity;and those generalized abilities may be manifested in particular ways depending upon interests,sensory deficiencies or acuities,and opportunity.