Nature of Creativity
This psychologist is considered a pioneer in the scientific study of creativity and proposed the concept of "divergent production."
What is J.P. Guilford?
This type of motivation involves doing a task for its own sake because it's interesting or enjoyable.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This short structured poem format used in creativity studies begins and ends with a noun and contains five lines.
What is an American haiku?
Creativity is typically defined by two main criteria: the solution must be novel and this.
What is useful?
This type of motivation involves doing a task for rewards or recognition.
What is extrinsic motivation?
The American haiku task asked participants to write about this season.
What is summer?
This type of thinking involves generating many possible solutions to a problem.
What is divergent thinking?
According to research, intrinsic motivation has this effect on creativity.
What is it increases creativity?
In Guilford’s divergent production test, you might be asked to list words that start with “L” and end with this letter.
What is N?
This type of thinking focuses on narrowing down to one best possible solution.
What is convergent thinking?
Extrinsic motivation can enhance creativity only when it offers this.
What is useful feedback?
Creative problem-solving tasks sometimes require overcoming this mental block, where an object is seen only for its intended use.
What is functional fixedness?
Creativity is associated with this rather than being confined to just one hemisphere of the brain.
What is in both the left and right hemispheres?
This personality trait defined as belief in one's ability to complete tasks is positively related to creativity.
What is self-efficacy?
In a test of divergent thinking, participants imagined adults were only 3 feet tall and listed these.
What are the consequences of that change?