Creativity : from potential to realization / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko, Jerome L. Singer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sternberg, Robert J.

Grigorenko, Elena L.

Singer, Jerome L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Creativity.

Medical Subjects:

Creativity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2004]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"The purpose of this book is to help readers understand what it means to be creative. Thus, the principal questions it answers are, "Who is creative--and why?" and "What is creativity?" The authors discuss the attributes that lead people to be creative in fields such as the arts and letters, the sciences, and business. The particular emphasis of the book is on the theoretical issue of whether the attributes (internal or external) that lead to creativity in one domain are the same as those that lead to creativity in another domain. Our interest is in whether the creative scientist or artist is someone who would have been creative had he or she pursued any field. In other words, is creativity a generalized attribute, as is implied by psychometric tests of creativity, or is it a domain-specific attribute, as implied by some studies of the role of knowledge in creative and other forms of expertise? The potential audience for our book is broad because the volume addresses a topic that is of potential relevance to any psychologist and to people outside the field. Practitioners need to be creative in their psychotherapy. Scientists need to be creative in designing theories and research. Educators need to be creative in their ways of teaching. There are few psychologists who do not need to be creative in their work, regardless of specialization. Moreover, the psychological study of creativity is multidisciplinary, involving approaches of social, personality, cognitive, clinical, biological, differential, developmental, educational, and other forms of psychology"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Contents:

Heisenberg's haiku, Madonna's math : why it is hard to be creative in

Everyone of the house / James C. Kaufman and John Baer

The artistic personality : a systems perspective / Sami Abuhamdeh and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The general-specificity of creativity : a multivariate approach / Todd Lubart and Jacques-Henri Guignard

Everyone has creative potential / Mark A. Runco

The evolved fluid specificity of human creative talent / Gregory J. Feist

Creativity as a constrained stochastic process / Dean Keith Simonton

Inventors : the ordinary genius next door / Sheila J. Henderson

Artistic scientists and scientific artists : the link between polymathy and creativity / Robert Root-Berstein and Michele Root Berstein

Why creativity is domain general, why it looks domain specific, and why the distinction doesn't matter / Jonathan A. Plucker and Ronald A. Beghetto

Vertical and horizontal mentoring for creativity / Mia Keinanen and Howard Gardner

Concluding comments : cross-over creativity or domain specificity? / Jerome L. Singer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2005 dcunns.

ISBN:

1591471206

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