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CREATIVITY DEFINITIONS ADAMS: "Creativity has sometimes been called the combination of seemingly disparate parts into a functioning and useful whole." ...Innovation is applied creativity--the practical, working solution. * AMABILE: "A response will be judged as creative to the extent that (a) it is both a novel and appropriate, useful, or valuable response to the task at hand and (b) the task is heuristic rather than algorithmic." (A heuristic is an incomplete guideline or rule of thumb that can lead to learning or discovery, i.e. no clear path. An algorithm is a complete mechanical rule for solving a problem or dealing with a situation.) ** PICASSO: "Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." EINSTEIN: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." * Adams, J.L., Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide To Better Ideas (3rd ed.), Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1986. ** Amabile, T.M., The Social Psychology of Creativity, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983. |