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Problem solving and creative thinking are closely related.  Creative thinking produces novel outcomes, and problem solving involves producing a new response to a new situation, which is a
novel outcome.  Sensitivity to problems, fluency, flexibility, novelty, synthesis, reorganization or
redefinition, complexity and evaluation. Creativity has
usually been associated with the mental operation described as divergent production. Transformations and implications as products and the behavioral content area.

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Self-actualization in human
behavior. Creative people are able to overcome those fears and the rigid pressures of society, and thus become able to free themselves to attain
personal integration, wholeness, and creativity.  bold, courageous, autonomous, spontaneous, and confident.

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To make something new or novel. Creativity is the personality, the process, and the product within a domain in interaction with genetic influences and with optimal environmental influences of home, school, community and culture, gender, and chance.
Creativity is a basic human need to make new.

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It is essential to consider four factors in a multifaceted conception of creativity. These are: person (personality characteristics or traits of creative people); process (elements of motivation, perception,
learning, thinking and communication); product (ideas translated into tangible forms); and press (the relationship between human beings and their environment).

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Four cognitive-intellective processes (Fluency,
Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration) and four affective- temperment dimensions (risk-taking, complexity, curiosity and imagination).

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Preparation (detecting a problem and gathering data); incubation (stepping away from the problem for a period
of time), illumination (a new idea or solution emerges, often unexpectedly), and verification (the new idea or solution is examined or tested).

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Aware of problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies and so on; bringing together available information; defining the difficulty; searching
for solutions, making hypotheses and modifying and retesting them; and communicating the results

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(1) an openness to experience that prohibits rigidity; (2)
ability to use one‘s personal standards to evaluate situation; and (3) ability to accept the unstable and to experiment with many possibilities. Are ―fully functioning or psychological healthy individuals.

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Creative thinking is thinking patterned in a way that tends to lead to creative results. Creative thinking involves (a) aesthetic (b) attention to purpose (c)mobility (d)working at the edge (e)being objective
(f)intrinsic motivation. Mix of strategies, skills, and attitudinal factors.

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breaking of habitual mental associations and the forming of new ones—including remote associations.

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Creative Problem Solving approach and the person who coined the term ―brainstorming, described creativity as mental capacity ―to visualize, to foresee, and to
generate ideas.

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Unusual but original ways to form new ideas. Dig deeply into one‘s associative structure, probing beyond obvious connections, to find the novel linkages among ideas out of which original solutions are formed.

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Originality, or the power of the imagination to break away from perceptual set so as to restructure new ideas, thoughts, and feelings into novel and associative bonds.

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9. Isaksen, Treffinger, Dorval   Thought

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9. Isaksen, Treffinger, Dorval   Thought

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Making and expressing meaningful new connections; it is a process in which we perceive challenges, concerns or opportunities, and then: Think of many possibilities; in varied ways, with different viewpoints; new and unusual possibilities and extend and elaborate alternatives. Analyzing and
developing ideas; Making inferences and deductions; Comparing and contrasting ideas; Categorizing and sequencing options; Improving and refining promising alternatives; Making effective judgments and decisions.

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Jjoining together of different and apparently irrelevant elements. The synectics approach holds that people can increase markedly their ability to make creative connections if they understand and use metaphoric thinking. Involves seeking and using direct, personal, and symbolic analogies to find new
solutions to problems.

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Creativity is the capacity to get ideas, especially original, inventive, and novel ideas. Daring and innovative in their
thinking.

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Characterized by inventiveness, individuality, independence, enthusiasm, determination, and industry. Self-confident and self-accepting and could address both their personal strengths and limitations openly and honestly. They were also
able to deal with ambiguity and lack of closure.

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Synthetic area of giftedness and emphasizes insightfulness, intuition, and facility in dealing with relatively novel situations. Analytic giftedness involves the
ability to dissect a problem and understand its parts. Practical giftedness involves applying
analytic or synthetic
abilities in everyday situations.
metacomponents (or how people manage and monitor their intellectual functioning), performance
components (or processes used to solve problems)
and knowledge components (or how people learn new information). also posed the ―investment theory of creativity, viewing
―six resources that interactively yield creativity: intellectual processes, knowledge, intellectual style,
personality, motivation, and environmental context.

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Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one.… A creative person is ―someone whose thoughts or actions change a domain or establish a new domain.

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Creativity is a characterization reserved to those products that are initially seen to be novel within a domain but that are ultimately recognized as acceptable within an appropriate community. Judgments of originality or creativity can be made only by knowledgeable members.

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Lateral thinking is concerned
with restructuring mental patterns and challenging accepted ideas and concepts.. Hats as metaphors for different kinds of thinking.  (facts and
information); (positive judgment or benefits); (feelings, hunches, and intuition); (judgment using logic to identify flaws); (creativity, possibilities, alternatives, or new ideas);
and Blue (metacognitive or managing one‘s thinking).

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A cognitive activity that may result in a creative production
that is perceived as new and useful.… We call the products creative if they represent a
transformation or a reconceptualization, have aesthetic coherence and appeal, represent a new configuration or connection of ideas, or serve some functional or explanatory purpose

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Involves an interaction among three components: intelligence, training, and motivation.