Domain specificity of creativity / / John Baer, Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822353003321
• Autore: Baer John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Elsevier, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-12-800289-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Collana: Explorations in Creativity Research
• Disciplina: 153.3/5
• Soggetti: Creative ability; Cognitive psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1 - Domain Specificity: Introduction and Overview; How is Creativity Measured?; Chapter 2 - Research Evidence for Domain Specificity; Introduction; What Domain Generality and Domain Specificity Predict; What Cross-Domain Creativity Assessments Show; Validity Check Interlude; Summary of What Assessments of Actual Creative Products Tell Us About Domain Generality; Evidence for Domain Generality; False Evidence: Why the Existence of Polymaths Cannot Help Resolve the Generality/Specificity Question; What Can We Conclude?; Chapter 3 - Implications of Domain Specificity for Creativity TheoryChapter 4 - Implications of Domain Specificity for Creativity Research; Chapter 5 - Implications of Domain Specificity for Creativity Assessment; Guilford's Structure of the Intellect Model and Tests of Divergent Thinking; Validity of Tests of Divergent Thinking; The Future of Divergent-Thinking Tests; Self-Report Measures of Creativity; Assessment of Actual Creative Performance; The Remote Associates Test; The Future of Creativity Assessment; Chapter 6 - Implications of Domain Specificity for Creativity Training; Chapter 7 - Finding Common Ground: The APT Model of Creativity and Metatheoretical Approaches to Understanding CreativityComposite Theories; Metatheories; Conclusions; References; Subject Index; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general. Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it. The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, testing for creativity, and teaching for creativity. The book outlines what these changes are and how creativity research and applications of that research will change in light of these new findings.