http://www.cindy.sifonis.com/Classes/Creative/CreativityMain.html en-us Cindy Sifonis Cindy Sifonis sifonis@oakland.edu Psychology 305: Creativity and Innovation Psychology 305: Creativity and Innovation no Cold Fusion Custom Process Cindy Sifonis Telling everyone how great podcasting is http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Analogy_and_Creativity.mp3 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Examines the historical influences on Creativity. Includes biblical influences, Grecian and Roman influences and concludes with Medieval influences. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/CreativityHistory.mp4 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discuss the different approaches to creativity such as the non-experimental approaches (Mystical approach, Psychodynamic approach, Pragmatic approach) and the experimental approaches (psychometric approach, social/personality approach, and cognitive approach). Concludes with a discussion of confluence approaches to the study of creativity. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/WhatIsCreativiity_Approaches.mp4 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussed the novelty and value components of definitions of creativity. Also addresses some of the complications in deciding what is novel and/or valuable. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/CreativityDefinition.mp4 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses some of the most recent research examining the location of insight in the brain using fMRI studies. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Localization_of_Insight.mp3 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses how right hemisphere arousal can increase creative thinking and how this type of arousal can be initiated by marijuana, hypnosis and music. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Arousal_by_Hemisphere.mp3 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses relationship between cortical arousal and creativity and the peak level of cortical arousal for performance depending on the difficulty of the task you are engaged in. Also discussed relationship between primary and secondary process thinking and arousal. Discussed Martindales proposal that creative individuals can control their arousal to enhance creative thinking. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Cortical_Arousal_and_Creativity.mp3 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussed Poincare's introspections about the creative process, the influence of unconscious processes and incubation and how that helped inform Wallace and Helmholz when they formalized the stages of the creative process. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Poincare_Creative_Process.mp3 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the truth and fiction underlying the belief that the left hemisphere of the brain is for logical thought and the right hemisphere is for creative thought. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Hemispheric_Creativity.mp3 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Explains the importance of analogy for creativity. Included in the discussion are the definitions of the source and target domains and the three processes involved in analogy. Examined the relationship between conceptual distance and creativity and the research by Sifonis examining that relationship. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Analogy_and_Creativity.mp3 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses conceptual expansion with schemas. Defines schemas. Explains research by Sifonis examining conceptual expansion using schemas and how the activity also involves conceptual combination and the exploration of the combination. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Schema_Expansion.mp3 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussed the importance of conceptual combination to creativity. Linguistic uses of conceptual combination and the interpretation of a novel combination. Special attention is focused on emergent features since these are seen as the source of new ideas. Also talked about relationship between the conceptual distance between constituents of a combination and how that relates to the creativity of the combination. Explored various means of generating novel combinations to help with idea generation. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Conceptual_Combination.mp3 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Continues the discussion of conceptual expansion and the creative cognition approach to creativity that was discussed in the lecture given in Second Life but was not recorded. Explained Wards ideas that creative cognition is driven by the Path of Least Resistence. Dominant category examples are those that are most likely to be used and to constrain creative product. Getting people to think about the problem abstractly frees them from these contraints. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Conceptual_Expansion.mp3 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the importance of the representation of the problem is to being able to solve the problem. Representations discussed include representing things as symbols, as graphs, and as images. Explained the importance of visual representations to creativity. Finished with a discussion of types of fixation including functional fixation, perceptual fixation and mental set. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Problem_Representation.mp3 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Early Gestalt Psychology research on insight problem solving using apes and arrangement problems. Discuss characteristics of insight problems and the insight problem solving debate in which the Special Processes view is contrasted to the Business as Usual View of insight problem solving. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Insight_Problem_Solving.mp3 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Definition of problem solving, problem states, problem space, and operators. Distinctions between heuristics and algorithms as well as between ill and well defined problems. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Problem_Solving_Terms.mp3 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the history of problem solving research, the Turing Test and its relationship to computational modeling of creativity. Newell and Simons GPS program as an example of computational modeling of problem solving. Aaron as an example of a computer producing original art. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Problem_Solving_Research.mp3 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Introduction to the cognitive view of creativity which includes the assumptions of the cognitive view of creativity, creativity asproblem solving and the predictions of the cognitive view of creativity. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Cognitive_Approach.mp3 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Second half of the creativity and madness lecture. First half of this lecture was presented in Second Life and not recorded. Characteristics of schizophrenia including dirsordered thought processes. How traits typical of schizophrenia could be associated with traits typical of creative individuals. How certain professional fields draw people with certain types of mental disorders. Alternately, people in certain fields might be more disclosing about their predisposition to experiencing mood swings. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Schizophrenia_and_Creativity.mp3 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the characteristics of the personality trait of Openness to Experience. Also discusses the personality characteristic of the Need to Be Different. Finishes with an assessment of the Psychometric approach to creativity. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Openness_to_Experience.mp3 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Personality traits of the creative individual. Big Five personality traits of the creative individual discussed. Comparing the traits of creative scientists and creative artists. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Creative_personality_traits.mp3 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Cognitive components of creative processes such as creative thinking skills including greater sensitivity to problems, divergent thinking and remote associations. Discuss difference between divergent and convergent thinking and how you need both for creativity. Also discussed ability to form remote associations and how this is tested with the Remote Associates Task. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Creative_thinking_skills.mp3 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Different ways of identifying creative personalities such as achieved eminence, personality tests, test of creative thinking ability, inventories. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Psychometric_methods.mp3 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Describes the Psychometric approach to identifying creative individuals. Discusses first approaches to identifying creative and eminent individuals for study. Creativity as a general trait rather than being domain specific. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Identifying_creative_personalities.mp3 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Beginning of the psychometric approach. Origins in intelligence testing approach. Assumptions of psychometric approach. Guilfords APA address calling for creativity research. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Psychometric_approach_to_creativity.mp3 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Bringing creative personalities into the organization. Discussion of Richard Floridas ideas about the the creative class and how to attract the creative class into your organization or city. How psychometric approach to creativity has shaped the publics perception of creativity and creative individuals. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Recruiting_creativity.mp3 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Greater productivity leads to greater chances for innovation. Simontons research on productivity and eminence and creative productivity curves for different professions. Small amount of productive people create most of the new products in their field. Divergent thinking and how it is tested using divergent thinking tasks. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Creative_productivity.mp3 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Medieval conceptualizations of creativity. How the renaissance was the beginning of our modern understanding of creativity and innovation. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Renaissance_of_Creativity.mp3 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Distinction between invention and innovation. Discusses the different types of innovation by providing definitions and examples for product, service, process, marketing, organizational/social, and business model innovation. Finishes with talk of the product life cycle, manufacturer driven innovation and end user innovation. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Innovation3.mp3 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Continued discussion of disruptive innovation and provided recent examples of disruptive innovation. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Innovation2.mp3 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:00:02 GMT Cindy Sifonis Distinction between creativity and innovation. Definition of innovation. Incremental and radical innovation and how to use the internal and external dimensions of innovation to distinguish between them. Optimal strategies for established companies and new entrants to a marketplace. Characteristics of disruptive innovation. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/PSY305/Innovation.mp3 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:00:02 GMT