Description: Creativity and Divergent Thinking : A Task-specific Approach, Paperback by Baer, John, ISBN 1138966932, ISBN-13 9781138966932, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance? Although much recent research argues against such domain-transcending skills -- including several new studies reported in this book -- the appeal of such general skills remains strong, probably because of the theoretical economy and power such skills would provide. Divergent thinking, in particular, has had an incredible staying power. Despite its many flaws, divergent thinking remains the most frequently used indicator of creativity in both creativity research and educational practice, and divergent thinking theory has a strong hold on everyday conceptions of what it means to be creative.
Reviewing the available research on divergent thinking, this book presents a framework for understanding other major theories of creativity, including Mednicks associative theory and a possible connectionist approach of creativity. It reports a series of studies (including the study that won APAs 1992 Berlyne Prize) that demonstrate the absence of effects of general creative-thinking skills across a range of creativity-relevant tasks, but indicate that training in divergent thinking does in fact improve creative performance across diverse task domains. Th then ties these findings together with a multi-level theory, in which a task-specific approach to creativity is strengthened by recasting some divergent-thinking concepts into domain- and task-specific forms.
This book fills the gap between divergent-thinking theory and more recent, modular conceptions of creativity. Rather than advocate that we simply discard divergent thinking -- an approach that hasnt worked, or at least hasnt happened, because of many attacks on its validity and usefulness -- this book shows how to separate what is useful in divergent-thinking theory and practice from what is not. It shows that divergent-thinking training can be valuable, although often not for the reasons trainers think it works. And it offers specific suggestions about the kinds of creativity research most needed today.
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Book Title: Creativity and Divergent Thinking : A Task-specific Approach
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
Publication Name: Creativity and Divergent Thinking : a Task-Specific Approach
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Creative Ability, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Creativity
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Subject Area: Self-Help, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Author: John Baer
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
