Darrin Gailey
Digital Creativity
Chen, 3.1
Ward, Smith, and Finke- Creative Cognition
Summary:
This article is about creative cognition and
how that it is a part of normal brain function in people. There are two goals
within creative cognition: advancing the
understanding of creativity and to extending the scientific understanding of
cognition.
Main Points:
-Creative Cognition: This states that all people have the ability
and capacity to have creative potential.
-Geneplore model: Part of a Heuristic model and believes creativity
comes from questioning and exploring to discover an idea.
-Exploratory Processes: The idea of questioning ideas and the search
for various practical limitations.
-Preventive Structures: The final idea that leads to an externalized product
of creative acts.
Example:
The authors give an example on page 196-197.
In this case study; a 5yr old and 10yr old were asked to draw animals that did
not exist. This study shows that the younger you are, the less likely that
you’ll cross-conceptual boundaries. This example is useful because it supports
the author’s ideas about concepts
Response:
I found this article to be slightly difficult
to follow at times. And, sometimes I feel as though certain issues could have
been expanded upon. However, saying that, what I understood was fascinating.
Overall, while it was filled with useful information, I would have preferred
that the author made it a little easier to connect dots without having to
re-read the article over and over again.
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