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Flashcards by Greg MacPherson, updated 12 months ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Unit Four - Module 23 Concepts and Creativity | Concepts and Creativity |
| cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
| metacognition | The awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes. It involves self-regulation of cognition through activities such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating one's understanding and performance. |
| concept | A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. |
| formal concept | A concept that has a very specific set of rules and features. Mathematics, for example, is full of formal concepts. In psychology, there are some formal concepts such as rules dictating double-blind experiments, sleep stages, and conditioned stimuli. |
| natural concept | A concept that is more fuzzy and allow us to interpret the world around us. These might include concepts such as justice and freedom. |
| prototype | A mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories. |
| schema | A cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information. |
| assimilation | Assimilation is the process of integrating new information into an existing schema without changing the schema. |
| accommodation | Accommodation is the process of modifying an existing schema or creating a new one to incorporate new information that doesn't fit the existing schema. |
| creativity | Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable. |
| convergent thinking | Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution. |
| divergent thinking | Expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that diverges in different directions. |
| five components of creativity | 1. Expertise 2. Imaginative thinking skills 3. A venturesome personality 4. Intrinsic motivation 5. A creative environment |
| four tips for boosting creativity | 1. Develop expertise 2. Allow time for incubation 3. Allow time for the mind to wander freely 4. Experience other cultures and thinking |
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