Using your text, compare The Creative Person Is handout with pages 240241 Creativity in Problem Solv

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Creativity and Intelligence
Pages 240-253
Using your text, compare The Creative Person Is
(handout) with pages 240-241 (Creativity in
Problem Solving Factors in Creativity) in your
text. Note the similarities
Then, be creative! The pictures will be shared
and posted on the wall in class on Monday.
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Creativity and Intelligence
Pages 240-253
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The Creative Person Is ...

• A DESIGNER
• A LOGICAL PROBLEM-SOLVER
• A HABIT BREAKER
• A CONSTRUCTIVELY DISCONTENTED PERSON
• A DIVERGENT- CONVERGENT THINKER
• INNOVATIVE
• UNPREDICTABLE
• A FEARLESS ADVENTURER
• A WHOLE PERSON
• A PERSON WHO ENJOYS BEING OFF CENTER
• A LOVABLE JERK

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Blocks to Creativity
Everyone seems to be waiting until they know it
all until they are the world experts before
they can speak up or act up to a situation. Yet
no one ever seems to become that world expert.
Therefore, we are kept from creativity by our own
pride, fear, jealousy and competitiveness.
Creativity is blocked by...
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fear
FEAR of making mistakes FEAR of being seen as a
fool FEAR of being criticized FEAR of being
misused or taken advantage of FEAR of being
alone (a man with an idea is automatically a
minority of one) FEAR of disturbing traditions
and of making changes FEAR of being associated
with taboos FEAR of losing the security of
habit FEAR of losing the love of the group FEAR
of being an individual
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fear
Being afraid is both natural and normal. It would
be a mistake to think we could eliminate it
altogether, nor would we want to. FEAR is simply
the reluctance and anxiety to deal with the
unexpected or the result or lack of preparation
to deal with the expected. But FEAR deters
progress toward creativity through misdirecting
our energy and by restraining us from the action
necessary to its development. The Universal
Traveler by Don Koberg Jim Bagnall. (Wm.
Kaufmann, Inc. Los Altos, CA, 1974)
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Important Vocabulary
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Creativity
The ability to generate novel solutions to
problems.
Divergent Thinking
A thought process that attempts to generate
multiple solutions to problems.
Convergent Thinking
A thought process that attempts to narrow in on
the single best solution to the problem.
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Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking

• Present the facts - narrow in on possible
  solutions before deciding
• vs.
• Generating as many possibilities as you can -
  then decide

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This is a Test
O O O O O O O O O

• Connect all nine dots
• Use only four straight lines
• Do not retrace your lines
• Do not lift your pen/pencil

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Eight soldiers need to cross a river, but the
only way to get across is in a small boat in
which two children are playing. The boat can
carry, at most, two children or one soldier. How
do the soldiers get across?
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The Remote Associates Test page 242
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Want another problem?
Take away 3 lines and leave 2 triangles
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Intelligence Creativity

• Intelligence and Creativity sometimes, but not
  always, go hand in hand
• High Intelligence is no guarantee for high
  Creativity
• Intelligence questions are usually aimed at
  convergent thinkers

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Intelligence
A complex and controversial concept. According to
David Wechsler, the capacity.to understand the
world and resourcefulness to cope with its
challenges
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Intelligence

• We associate it with
• Academic Success
• Achievement on the Job
• Socially appropriate behavior

• It can not be seen - touched - or physically
  measured
• It is subject to various interpretations

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• Intelligence Tests MUST BE
• reliable - consistency (must yield similar
  results on different testing occasions)
• valid- the degree to which a test measures
  what it is supposed to measure

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Individual Intelligence Tests
SBIS - Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
IQ MA/CA x 100
IQ Intelligence Quotient MA Mental Age CA
Chronological Age
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Wechsler scales
Finally, what is Deviation IQ?
How is it different from the Stanford-Binet scale?
Quiz tomorrow! 35 points How intelligent are you?