Creativity

Creativity is a human mental phenomenon based around the deployment of mental skills and/or conceptual tools, which, in turn, originate and develop innovation, inspiration, or insight.

Fostering creativity

Some see the conventional system of schooling as "stifling" of creativity and attempt (particularly in the pre-school/kindergarten and early school years) to provide a creativity-friendly, rich, imagination-fostering environment for young children. Compare Waldorf School.

Related Topics:
Schooling - Pre-school - Kindergarten - Waldorf School

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A growing number of pop psychologists are making money off the idea that one can learn to become more "creative". Several different researchers have proposed several different approaches to prop up this idea, ranging from psychological-cognitive, such as:

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• Synectics
• Purdue Creative Thinking Program
• lateral thinking (courtesy of Edward de Bono)

to the highly structured such as:

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• TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
• ARIZ, the Algorithm of Inventive Problem-Solving both developed by the Russian scientist Genrich Altshuller.

See also: creativity techniques.

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A study by the psychologist J. Philippe Rushton found that creativity correlated with intelligence and psychoticism (Rushton, 1990).

Related Topics:
J. Philippe Rushton - Intelligence - Psychoticism

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