CreativityCreativity may be more important than IQ in allowing a Michelangelo or a Mozart to break new ground.
But what is creativity and what do we know about creativity over the life span?
Defining creativity had provoked as much contr0versy as defining intelligence.
However, creativity is often defined as the ability to produce more responses or works.
Moreover, it is enough for these products to be outlandish; they must in some way be appropriate in context or valued by others.
In structure of intellect-model, the expert captured the idea of creativity by proposing that it involves divergent thinking.
Divergent thinking requires coming up with variety of ideas or solutions to a problem when there is no one right answer.
Indeed, the most common measure of creativity, at least in children, is what is called ideational fluency – the sheer number of different, including novel, ideas that one can generate when asked.
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