**Libro:** Complex Cognition: The psychology of human thought\\ Capítulo: 12\\ Título: Creativity\\ Autor(es): Robert J. Sternberg/Talia Ben Zeev\\ Editorial: Oxford University Press\\ Año:2001\\ ====== Tema central: ====== Recopila el conocimiento generado al rededor de la creatividad como objeto de investigación interdisciplinar. las agrupa en 8 categorías y según estas teorías describe lo que entienden como aportes creativos. ===== La creatividad como objeto de estudio ===== Creativity is the ability to producenovel, high-quality, task-appropiate products.\\ ==== Perspectivas investigadas y sus autores: ==== - Mystical Approaches: Cannot be investigated (matter of muses)\\{{:creativity_theories_mystical.png?400|}} - Pragmatic Approaches: have focused on how to use creativity and how to increase it.\\{{:creativity_theories_pragmatic.png?400|}} - Psychodynamic Approaches: Focuses on the unconscious processes underlying creativity.\\{{:creativity_theories_psichodynamic.png?500}} - Psychometric Approaches: How creativity can be masured\\{{:creativity_theories_Psychometric.png?300|}} - Cognitive Approaches: Information processing and mental representations underlying creativity\\{{:creativity_theories_cognitive.png?500|}} - Social-personality Approaches:Motivation, Roles of the other people, personality treats.\\{{:creativity_theories_social_personality.png?400|}} - Evolutionary Approaches:creativity is an adaptation that enhances the chances of survival\\{{:creativity_theories_evolutionary.png?400|}} - Confluence Approaches: Integration of different theories.\\ {{:creativity_theories_confluence.png?400|}} ==== Tipos de contribuciones creativas ==== - Normal or revolutionary (Kuhn, 1970).\\ - The solution to a well designed problem - the devising of an encompassed theory-frozen work-ritulized work-"high stakes" performance. (Gardner, 1993,1994. - Parameters of psychometric models:\\ *(Rubenson & Runco, 1992)???\\ *The extent to wich they "defy the crowd" (Sternbert & Lubart, 91A, 91b, 95, 96)\\ - Recognition in the field (Campbell,1960;perkinson, 1995; Simonton, 1997) - Primary and secondary creativity (Maslow, 1968)\\ - (Ward et al. 1999):\\ *Roles of focusing ( Ward et al. 1999) (Bowers, Regehr, Balthazard, & Parker, 1990;Kaplan and Symon, 1990) and exploratory thinking ( Ward et al. 1999)(bradsford & Stein, 1984; Gretzels & Csikszentmiyalyi, 1976)\\ *Domain specific () Universal ()\\ *Unestructured and structured or systematic\\ - Propulsion Model: (Sternberg, 1999c)\\ *Replication-Redefinition-Forward incrementation-Advance forward incrementation- Redirection- Reconstruction redirection-reinitiation-integration.\\ ====== Bibliografía ======