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Simonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley (2006) emphasized the critical place that convergent thinking has in creativity. Although he briefly refers to the blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity, his discussion could not reflect the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in BVSR, especially the resulting combinatorial models.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes

Simonton, Dean Keith – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Applied two-step cognitive model to relationship between age and creative productivity. Selected ideation and elaboration rates as information-processing parameters that define mathematical function which describes age curves and specifies their variance across disciplines. Applied non-linear estimation program to further validate model. Despite…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Development, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development

Simonton, Dean Keith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1998
This introductory article discusses a blind-variation and selective-retention model of the creative process developed by Donald Campbell. According to Campbell, creativity contains three conditions: a mechanism for introducing variation, a consistent selection process, and a mechanism for preserving and reproducing selected variations. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity