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.

Contexto de la creatividad como objeto de estudio

Perspectivas investigadas y sus autores:

1. Mystical Approaches: Cannot be investigated (matter of muses)
2. Pragmatic Approaches: have focused on how to use creativity and how to increase it.
3. Psychodynamic Approaches: Focuses on the unconscious processes underlying creativity.
4. Psychometric Approaches: How creativity can be masured
5. Cognitive Approaches: Information processing and mental representations underlying creativity
6. Social-personality Approaches:Motivation, Roles of the other people, personality treats.
7. Evolutionary Approaches:creativity is an adaptation that enhances the chances of survival
8. Confluence Approaches: Integration of different theories.
   

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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)
   
3. (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

1. Propulsion Model: (Sternberg, 1999c)
   

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

Creativity is the ability to producenovel, high-quality, task-appropiate products.