Abstract

CORBALAN BERNA, Javier. What do we mean when we talk about creativity?. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2008, n.35, pp.11-21. ISSN 1668-8104.

The concept of creativity has gradually become a more precise and complex concept, thanks to the different contributions from several fields of knowledge, and also from creators introspection. Creativity plays a part when explaining the relevant keys in excellence conducts. Therefore, its contribution give us information mainly about possibilities and problems related to high performance. However, creativity is defined as a universal feature and it also directly refers to day-to-day existentialist and professional conducts. In our experience as researchers, thanks to a method that assesses differences in creativity, we have also brought science lens a bit closer to this human dimension. Finally, bringing together what creative people and researchers have said along the years with our own perspective, we have come to a result, which is at the same time a bet, about that we mean when we talk about creativity. Creations involve multiple dimensions; however, the basics, the first step in creativity, is to make questions.

Keywords : Assessment; Cognitive measuring of creativity; CREA; Creativity; Creative intelligence; Creativity measuring; Problem seeking; Questioning; Test.

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