Creativity

COMPONENTIAL THEORY OF

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CREAT IVITY ALEXANDRA CHUDINOVA PhD EDITE RESEARCH SEMINAR 1

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1 Brie

creativity

theory by Teresa Amabile (1983) creative process historical development degrees of creativity

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2 Glossar

Creativity-relevant processes

risk-taking

use wide flexible categories

self-discipline

Task Motivation interesting, involving, personally challenging, satisfying rewards, surveillance, competition, evaluation, requirements

The Social Environment collaborative, diversely skilled, idea-focused freedom in carrying out the work supervisors who encourage the development of new ideas top management

The Components and the Creative Process analyzing and articulating the exact nature of the problem to be solved; preparing to solve the problem by gathering information; improving any required skills; generating ideas for solving the problem; testing or validating the chosen solution, and communicating that solution to others.

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION and RESPONSE GENERATION

Respects its relatively comprehensive scope, covering skills, motivation within the individual as well as the external social environment; its specification of the impact of the components at each stage of the creative process; its emphasis on the social environment, and the impact of that environment on the individual engaged in the creative process – particularly the individual’s intrinsic motivation

Evolution 2008

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3 Research desig Historical foundations Life examples Skills Creativity-relevant processes Motivation

Social and psychological factors

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Reliability and validit Just one example

The theory can be improved and it’s a first base for creating the new models of creativity

Aim, research method, the main assumption

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Components of creative process

Analysing the life examples Experiment Observational research Comparative analyse Influence the team work on the creative process.

How can the components help to improve the creative process?

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Strenghts and weaknesse Arguments Examples Usefulness Structure

More examples for comparing the results Graphics

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