Recopila el conocimiento generado al rededor de la creatividad como objeto de investigación interdisciplinar. Las teorías están descritas 8 categorías

Contexto de la creatividad como objeto de estudio

Perspectivas investigadas y sus autores:

1. Perspectivas místicas(Mystical Approaches)
2. P. Pragmáticas(Pragmatic Approaches)
3. P. Psicodinámicas(Psychodynamic Approaches)
4. P. (Psychometric Approaches)
5. (Cognitive Approaches)
6. (Social-personality Approaches)
7. (Evolutionary Approaches)
8. (Confluence Approaches)
   

Tipos de contribuciones creativas

1. Normal or revolutionary (Kuhn, 1970).
   
2. The solution to a well designed problem - the devising of an encompassed theory-frozen work-ritulized work-“high stakes” performance. (Gardner, 1993,1994.
3. Parameters of psychometric models
   

(Rubenson & Runco, 1992)???
The extent to wich they “defy the crowd” (Sternbert & Lubart, 91A, 91b, 95, 96)

1. Recognition in the field (Campbell,1960;perkinson, 1995; Simonton, 1997)
2. Primary and secondary creativity (Maslow, 1968)
   

1. (Ward et al. 1999):
   

1. 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)
2. Domain specific () Universal ()
3. Unestructured and structured or systematic
4. Propulsion Model: (Sternberg, 1999c)
   

Replication-Redefinition-Forward incrementation-Advance forward incrementation- Redirection- Reconstruction redirection-reinitiation-integration.

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