The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological PerspectivesRobert J. Sternberg Originally published in 1988, this book provides sixteen chapters by acknowledged experts on the richness and diversity of psychological approaches to the study of creativity. Addressing various aspects and levels of analysis, together they constitute a broad survey of the understanding of what it is to be 'creative'. In the first part of The Nature of Creativity, the role of the environment is discussed. In the second part, the role of the individual is viewed - first from a psychometric perspective; and then from a cognitive or information-processing perspective. In the third part, the role of interaction between individual and environment is examined, first through studies of creative lives; and then through studies of creative systems. The final part consists of an integration and comparison of these various approaches to creativity. A broad audience of psychologists, educators, students and general readers will welcome this lively and thought-provoking investigation. |
Contents
The conditions of creativity | 11 |
The nature of creativity as manifest in its testing | 43 |
Putting creativity to work | 76 |
Various approaches to and definitions of creativity | 99 |
A threefacet model of creativity | 125 |
Problem solving and creativity | 148 |
A computational model of scientific insight | 177 |
Freedom and constraint in creativity | 202 |
dreams insights and transformations | 271 |
a synthetic scientific approach | 298 |
a systems view of creativity | 325 |
Creativity and talent as learning | 340 |
The possibility of invention | 362 |
Creativity leadership and chance | 386 |
What do we know about creativity? | 429 |
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