SaDale Richards
Exam 2
1. Amabile theorized that four things can restrict creativity: evaluation, rewards, competition, and constraints. Describe why each of these might affect the creative process and give one specific example to illustrate each of the four restrictions. (4 points)
Evaluation: people tend to show less of their creative abilities when they know an evaluation will take place. EX. Carol knows her teacher is strict so she doesn’t add a lot of glitter to her art project, to avoid a negative evaluation.
Rewards: people tend to show less creativity when they know they’ll receive an award for it. Ex. Dominique received an award last year for an science experiment, so he does the same experiment knowing he’ll receive one again.
Competition: When there is competition people tend to show less creativity. Ex. Johnathan doesn’t try his best to carve his pumpkin well, because he knows Ashley has won two years in a row.
Constraints: When there is rules restricting what a person can and can’t do, people tend to show less of their creative ability. Ex. The art teacher assigned an art project requiring the class to draw a picture of fruit without using color pencils, just markers. Jack knows the color pencils will produce a much neater picture, but he uses markers because of the rules.
2. Describe the differences between intelligence and cognition. (2 points)
Cognition is the way people take in information and combine it while intelligence is the way people take in
In this video Ken Robinson touches on three main points. His first point he was talking about the education system and one's creativity. He gave two anecdotes about kids that showed that they are willing to take a chance and be creative. If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. He believes that the education system institutionalizes people, and that people lose the creativity they had.
At that age and time, students do not understand what it means to be innovative and creative. In the novel, Brave New World, a director raises and conditions human embryos to not be creative and to only follow the rules. In real life, students need a figure of authority, or a teacher, to guide them in certain directions and the only place where they can be taught how to use creativity to their favor is at school. In Brave New World, their figure of authority guided them into the direction of not being creative and as a result millions of humans were boring and felt no desire or need to be different. One of the characters in Brave New World explains that without art, science, and religion, human life is not worth living. If students take the class in creativity they learn that from those three components grows gift of creativity. Without the desire to be different and creative, which would be taught in the class, society would unfortunately decline to a point where trivial culture becomes the most important thing and civilization would result in an abundance of passivity and
Creativity drives today’s world, with new technology arriving daily and science conducting itself further. We need creative and imaginative people in today’s atmosphere to bring the world to the next step forward. “Standardized college admissions tests assess only analytical skills, as well as the knowledge base on which they act, and completely ignore creative and practical skills (Sternberg 7)”. Without creative people in this world, where do you think we would be? Not very far. We need practical skills to go throughout everyday life. The standardized tests don’t test for that knowledge base, they test how much short term memory a
Creativity or the lack of encouraging creativity can be seen declining as you get lower in the class level in Anyons research. She states “Work tasks do not usually request creativity” and “Creativity is not often requested in social studies and Science projects”. In an article entitled “The Impact of Creativity on the Brain” by Judy Willis M.D; M.E.D posted on the website Radtech.com. “Neuroscience and cognitive science research are increasingly providing information that correlates creativity with intelligence; academic, social, and emotional success; and the development of skill sets and the highest information processing (Executive functions)”. This basically states that if creativity is encouraged then the upper intelligence functions of students are developed which includes social and emotional success. Which shows that if you stifle creativity you basically limit the
This would help in many ways. In the book of Hatchet, Brian needed to be creative to make his place to live, to make his tools, and to make his raft. His home, an overhang he had found where had put sticks around for walls, had to have been made from creativity, because if he had not used it he would probably have not had a place to live. To make all of his tools, he was being very creative, because e needed to find things to make them with and how to put them together with only the things he had. Brian’s raft that he made from big branches used creativity because he figured out how to put them together without string and he made it using only sticks. Ernest Shackleton used creativity when he and his crew had to build an entire town made of igloos and other buildings to survive on
In the context of creativity’s stated definition, we will proceed to group our arguments into three themes of factors: cognitive ability, expertise training, and environmental conditions. The human brain is highly adaptable and can continue to develop new cognitive abilities, even past adulthood (Norman, 2015). Proper cognitive expertise and training can help workers produce and operate in ingenious ways (Ginamarie, Lertiz & Mumford, 2004). Finally, the working environment can both motivate or stifle creative output. Managers can influence all three components: expertise, thinking skills, and motivation (Amabile, 1998).
Creativity is more about the process rather than the end product and this creative process is useful for many reasons, developing confidence, developing good relationships, finding out what talents and strengths we have and teaches us about
Constraints are everything that influences the rhetoric or context of the writing. I suppose you could argue the exigence is the most important but I believe the constraints are what make the essay or article what it should be. If the exigence is the purpose then the constraints are what controls where the purpose goes and what is written or said by the rhetor and what the audience hears or reads. Constraints aren’t necessarily a bad thing or even limiting, I look at it as more understanding the limits of my audience and the reason for writing and the effect it will have on my audience. For this paper in particular without going into understanding the English language and all that one of my constraints would have been the topic. It would have made no sense to talk about horse pedigree in a paper about metal art so my writing had to stay on topic. Another constraint would be I assumed the readers were at least familiar with the trade so my acronyms were understood. While analyzing the paper I can’t forget to mention the kairos of my
Creativity is often more about the process rather than the end project, it is useful for many reasons:
The limitations section in a research paper is the section used to discuss limitations the research may have faced. These limitations would be considered impending weaknesses because one has no control over them. Limitations are known to cause a restriction on one study and can affect the end results (PhDStudent, 2016, p. 1).
According to Baird and colleagues, mind wandering can enhance creativity goals and problems that were encountered. Creativity finds solutions that are novel, and high quality (Matlin, 2009). J.P. Guilford researched how we measure creativity. Creativity should be measured by divergent production. This research demonstrates the number of different responses that are made for each test item (Matlin, 2009).
• Amabile: How to Kill Creativity? Harvard Business Review 1998 (course packet; writeup 1. For Feb 5)
The term creativity is used for the purpose of describing the ability that is concerned with the process of creating something new or valuable. This ability allows a person to surpass the rules, practices, methods, forms or similar kind of activities that the traditional society may be performing at that time. Creativity is one of the most important things that have allowed the people of the society to move forward and urge for development. All the development that has been made in various aspects of human life can be directly connected with the creativity. All the industry leaders of the world have secured this place because of the level of creativity and innovation that they showed. They used this creativity for creating something new that has allowed them to develop completely new methods for this purpose.
Change, creativity and innovation are essential elements for survival and growth of an organization. Creativity is vital for the birth of fresh and beneficial ideas. Creative thinking allows groups and individuals to solve problems or stimulate to think differently in order to bring forth fruitful ideas. The above mentioned creative thinking enabled our team of six different personalities to come together and implement a plan to solve a complex problem in a hospital. Our assigned task was to recommend a plan in order to alleviate hospital readmission among elderly population within thirty days of discharge. In this paper the author is narrating the team dynamics, functionalities and personal competencies in the process of recommending a change in the system. As a member in the innovation leadership team the author is also reflecting on the assessment, capacity for innovation in the organization which is the hospital where the team is assigned.
Limitations: Discuss limitations of analysis or recommendations. Might include assumptions made but not comfortable with, or impediments to success that may prove more difficult than you expect. Discuss potential disadvantages of your recommendations.