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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
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
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
Morrow, James – Media and Methods, 1979
Discusses research that challenges the view that creativity originates in the right side of the brain; advocates a broad but concise definition of creativity. (MAI)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Discovery Processes

Csikszentmihalyi, M.; Getzels, J. W. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creative Activities

Davies, H. B. – Mathematics in School, 1980
The author presents and elaborates on a division algorithm devised by his 9-year-old son. (MK)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Discovery Processes

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

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
CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, MIHALY; GETZELS, JACOB W. – 1965
A SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION OF THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION OF A DRAWING WAS CONDUCTED. A SITUATION WAS DESIGNED IN WHICH A SAMPLE GROUP OF ABOUT 30 ARTISTS COULD BE OBSERVED AT WORK. BEHAVIOR WAS RECORDED AND THE PROGRESS OF THEIR WORK PHOTOGRAPHED. OF THE BEHAVIORS OBSERVED, SIX WERE TAKEN TO REFLECT RELEVANT STAGES IN THE…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Creative Art, Creative Expression
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
Carbone, Peter F., Jr. – J Creative Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creativity

Alexander, Robert – Language Arts, 1984
Touches on the cognitive and self-discovery processes and imagination and creativity children experience before their verbal skills are fully developed. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Processes

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
Foshay, Arthur Wellesley, Ed.; Morrisett, Irving, Ed. – 1978
Eight papers which discuss rational and nonrational modes of knowing and consciousness and their relevance to educational practice are presented. Richard Jones in "Looking Back and Forth on Consciousness" considers two modes, the rational and the metaphoric, in a discussion of dreams. Alfred Kuhn discusses random variation and selective retention…
Descriptors: Books, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creativity
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