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James C. Kaufman; Vlad P. Glaveanu – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
The traditionally studied positive outcomes of creativity tend to be product-focused, such as Big-C contributions, good grades, or strong work performance. This paper makes an argument for the importance of less-discussed products of the process--the benefits that arise from being creative, regardless of one's abilities or level of achievement.…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Self Concept
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Danek, Amory H.; Salvi, Carola – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
Having a sudden insight is often associated with inherent confidence, enough for Archimedes to run naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!". Recent evidence demonstrates that public displays of enthusiasm, such as the ancient polymath's, are actually supported by a higher likelihood of being correct.
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Cognitive Processes, Evidence, Psychological Patterns
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Darbellay, Frédéric; Moody, Zoe; Sedooka, Ayuko; Steffen, Gabriela – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
Interdisciplinary research can be defined as the practice of discovering new objects of knowledge beyond disciplinary borders. It often operates through the cross-fertilization and hybridization of concepts, theoretical frameworks, and methodological tools to enable the description, analysis, and understanding of the complexity of objects of study…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Creativity, Research, Discovery Learning
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Perla, Rocco J.; Carifio, James – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Background: Extending Merton's (1936) work on the consequences of purposive social action, the model, theory and taxonomy outlined here incorporates and formalizes both anticipated and unanticipated research findings in a unified theoretical framework. The model of anticipated research findings was developed initially by Carifio (1975, 1977) and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Models, Influences, Creativity
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Doyle, Charlotte Lackner – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1975
Defines and characterizes the steps involved in thinking creatively, pointing out numerous contraditions about creative thinking. (RB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes, Divergent Thinking
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Cooper, Eileen E. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2000
This psychological phenomenological research analyzed cognition of 7 adult inventors and proposes a theory of original, creative thinking. Spatial intelligence is reviewed. Results provide 7 findings, including cognitive, motivational, affective, and psychokinesthetic factors. Spatial-temporal intelligence is theorized as an abstract model of…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking
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Hocevar, Dennis – Child Study Journal, 1979
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking: Verbal Form A were given to 39 fifth-grade children in a rural elementary school and scored for fluency, flexibility, and originality. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Tests
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Grossman, Stephen R.; Wiseman, Edward E. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1993
Seven principles are presented for improving creative thinking, based on assumptions of creativity as a perceptual shift resulting from a metamorphic mental image. Principles include (1) the future initiates and pulls creative thought; (2) initial fact finding is best postponed; (3) problem redefinition is often retrospective; and (4) metaphors…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Cogswell, Coralie – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Content, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development
Cackowski, Zdzislaw – J Creative Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Cues
Moore, Michael T. – 1983
Studies of creativity have generally dealt with the creative act, typically defined as the statistically infrequent approach to problem solving. A study was conducted to determine whether a relationship exists between problem discovery and originality of the written product, and whether problem-finding behavior may be observed in student writers.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Creative Thinking
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Baker-Sennett, Jacquelyn; Ceci, Stephen J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1996
Two studies were conducted, one using 80 university students and the other 140 fifth through seventh graders, to examine the relationship between problem-solving strategies (leaping and flexibility) and measures of insight and scholastic aptitude. Relationships among insight, leaping, and quantitative scholastic aptitude were found. A…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking
Langston, M. Diane – 1986
Many people are interested in computer aids to rhetorical invention and want to know how to evaluate an invention aid, what the criteria are for a good one, and how to assess the trade-offs involved in buying one product or another. The frame of reference for this evaluation is an "old paradigm," which treats the computer as if it were…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Authoring Aids (Programing), Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Boice, Robert; Meyers, Patricia E. – Written Communication, 1986
Reviews automaticity, effortless writing that enjoys freedom from excessive conscious interference, in terms of its origins in automatic writing and growth into contemporary techniques. Characterizes automaticity as a (1) form of dissociation from consciousness; (2) succor to spontaneity and creativity; and (3) key to understanding why some…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing, Discovery Processes
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Castle, Marrietta; Lewis, Cathie – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1996
Describes grade-appropriate weekly activities designed to appeal directly to students by giving them open-ended questions. Activities may be worked on individually, in pairs, or in small groups. This particular set of activities focuses on stories from literature involving measurement, earning money, marketing a product, and setting up a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
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