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Development of Children's Creative Visual Imagination: A Theoretical Model and Enhancement Programmes.
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In this paper, a new theoretical model of creative imagination and its applications in early education is presented, which sees creative imagination as composed of three inter-related components: vividness of images, their originality, and the level of transformation of imageries.Abstract:
This paper presents a new theoretical model of creative imagination and its applications in early education The model sees creative imagination as composed of three inter-related components: vividness of images, their originality, and the level of transformation of imageries We explore the theoretical and practical consequences of this new model At the theoretical level, we argue that it is important to analyse creative visual imagination as both a process (understood as a cognitive mechanism) and typologically (revealing different types of creative imagination) On a practical level, we present preliminary applications and discuss several creativity training programmes for developing children's creative imagination understood as the effective and coordinated cooperation between vividness, originality, and transformative ability of imagesread more
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Creativity and academic achievement: A meta-analysis.
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of 120 studies examining the relationship between creativity and academic achievement in research conducted since the 1960s was conducted, which revealed that this relationship was constant across time but stronger when creativity was measured using creativity tests compared to self-report measures.
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Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis
Maciej Karwowski,Jan Dul,Jacek Gralewski,Emanuel Jauk,Dorota M. Jankowska,Aleksandra Gajda,Michael H. Chruszczewski,Mathias Benedek +7 more
TL;DR: The Necessary Condition Analysis (Dul et al. as discussed by the authors ) is an empirical test of the hypothesis that intelligence is a necessary condition for creativity, which is based on the classic threshold hypothesis.
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Imagination and Creativity in the Adolescent
TL;DR: Cassirer as discussed by the authors describes a patient with complex disturbances of higher intellectual functions who could not relate only real situations that matched his own concrete, sensory experience, but always made a transition to another form that agreed with reality.
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Measuring creative imagery abilities.
TL;DR: A new theoretical model of creative visual imagination is introduced, which bridges creativity and imagination research, as well as a new psychometric instrument, called the Test of Creative Imagery Abilities (TCIA), developed to measure creative imagery abilities understood in accordance with this model.
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Selfies and the (Creative) Self: A Diary Study
TL;DR: Day-to-day changes in creative activity explained a significant proportion of selfying, similarly as previous creative achievement did, and intelligence was negatively linked to the intensity of selfie posting and moderated the relationship between creative achievements and selfying.
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Looking at pictures: affective, facial, visceral, and behavioral reactions
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Imagination and creativity in childhood.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between two basic forms of human behavior: reproductive and creative, and distinguish between the two types of activities of a person that create anything new, creative activity.
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Judgement and Reasoning in the Child
TL;DR: The work of Jean Piaget as mentioned in this paper conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development, leading to a new understanding of the human brain.
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Structured imagination: The role of category structure in exemplar generation.
TL;DR: The authors found that the majority of imagined creatures were structured by properties that are typical of animals on earth: bilateral symmetry, sensory receptors, and appendages, and subjects also allowed shape, appendages and sense receptors to vary often across species but rarely within species.