Critical creative processes / edited by Mark A. Runco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Runco, Mark A.

Series:

Perspectives on creativity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative thinking.

Critical thinking.

Learning, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

xiii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [2003]

Contents:

Part 1 Intrapersonal Processes 1

1 Creativity as Variation and Selection: Some Critical Constraints / Dean Simonton 3

2 Picking the Right Material: Cognitive Processing Skills and Their Role in Creative Thought / Michael D. Mumford, Wayne A. Baughman, Christopher E. Sager 19

3 Idea Evaluation, Divergent Thinking, and Creativity / Mark A. Runco 69

4 Creativity, Personality and the Convergent-Divergent Continuum / H. J. Eysenck 95

5 Creative Interaction: A Conceptual Schema for the Process of Producing Ideas and Judging the Outcomes / Edward Necka 115

6 Evaluative Thinking, Creativity, and Task Specificity: Separating Wheat From Chaff is Not the Same as Finding Needles in Haystacks / John Baer 129

7 The Role of Intelligence in Creativity / Robert J. Sternberg, Todd E. Lubart 153

8 Thinking Critically About Creative Thinking / Diane F. Halpern 189

9 Creative Attributional Self-talk / Thomas E. Heinzen 209

10 Pragmatic Psycholinguistics as a Framework for the Evaluation of Creativity / Albert N. Katz 225

11 The Development of Creative Thinking and Critical Reflection: Lessons from Everyday Problem Finding / John F. Wakefield 253

Part 2 Interpersonal Processes

12 Teaching Invention as Critical Creative Processes: A Course on Technoscientific Creativity / Michael E. Gorman, Jonathan A. Plucker 275

13 Evaluative Processes During Group Improvisational Performance / R. Keith Sawyer 303

14 Motives for Criticism: Some Theoretical Speculations and Introspective Data / Jock Abra 329

15 Intermediaries in the Creative Process: Serving the Individual and Society / Morris I. Stein 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1572731346

1572731354

OCLC:

48795978