Category Archives: Creativity Models
[SEER] Model of Creative Practice
From Greene’s 42 Creativity Models, I began to work on a synthesis to what I initially called the Self-Making Model. After some thought/work what has finally settled in as feeling right is the Self Extension and Experience Realization [SEER] model … Continue reading
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The Representational Topologies Model The final model of creativity in this model of models sees creativity as changes of representations (Vallacher and Nowak, 1994; Sternberg, 1988; Casti, 1997; Caves, 2000; Ortony, 1993). More specifically it sees creativity coming from changes … Continue reading
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The Experience Realization Forms Model Some people know what they see, what they feel, what they experience. Many such people are artists. Where we see a tree, they see an abstract branching process throughout the universe–rivers, trees, fingers, social networks … Continue reading
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The Hint Type Recognition Model Sherlock Holmes is the illustration of this model that most people can most easily visualize and connect with. Holmes lives in a world of clues and hints. Where we see nothing, he takes the most … Continue reading
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The Making Sense Model Imagine a person who simply does not get it. He fails to understand answers that satisfy the rest of us. He keeps in each encounter in life running into beliefs, values, procedures, and ideas that do … Continue reading
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The Cognitive Operator Extremes Model Another mind type model of creativity is this one, the cognitive operator extremes model. This is a model of ordinary cognitive operations carried to extremes, of speed, accuracy, breadth, depth, and so forth. Creativity occurs … Continue reading
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The Insight Model For many people and many years the stereotypical image of creation was “eurekaâ€, sudden insights that come out of nowhere. Actual research has found that though insights indeed are sudden and though they often occur when the … Continue reading
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The Performance Creativity Model Earlier in this article, the performance model of creativity was presented. It sees creativity as always a performance before audiences (Webb, 1998; Noice and Noice, 1997; Sawyer, 1997; Strasberg, 1987). It sees the moves, the “actingâ€, … Continue reading
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The Career Invention Model The world comes to us all pre-structured. It has organizations and career paths among and through them. Many people go over the structure of the world and pick interesting parts of it to get involved with. … Continue reading