Best of Bonk Handouts

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Creativity (Perkins, 1988):

a. Creativity: "a creative result is a result both original and appropriate."

b. Creative Person: "a creative person--a person with creativity--is a person who fairly routinely produces creative results."

Creative Process (Torrance 1988):
"I tried to define creative thinking as a process of (1) sensing difficulties, problems, gaps in information, missing elements, something askew; (2) making guesses and formulating hypotheses about these deficiencies; (3) evaluating and testing these guesses and hypotheses; (4) possibly revising and retesting them; and finally (5) communicating the results."

The three-four P's (Davis, 1992):

Creative Person (look for traits; e.g., visionary type)

Creative Process (looking at stages, steps, actions, behaviors)

Creative Product (looking at composition, design, innovation, fitness, worthiness)

Creative Press (look at environment, climate, place)

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