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Studentų kūrybiškumo kaitos ypatumai / Characteristics of creativity change in university students

Today scholars give particular emphasis to creativity. A definite part of scholarship inquiring particularly into the problem of human creative power covers a wide range of aspects of training for creative thinking. The present work seeks to explore the chances of fostering the cognitive and the personality components of creativity in university students.
Creativity means one’s ability to perceive a problem and to generate new ideas, or to think independently and deal quickly and easily with a problem situation, or to find an original way of solving a problem, or to create novel things (Guilford, 1968b; Torrance, 1974; Sternberg, O’Hara, 1999; Sternberg et al., 2005). Ability to think creatively depends not only on one’s knowledge and skills. Rather, it is determined by one’s special ability to distinguish a problem, and to utilise, speedily and in multiple ways, information contained in tasks one has been set (Guilford, 1968; Torrance, 1962).
Research outlined in the present dissertation is based on theoretical assumptions advanced by cognitive (J. P. Guilford, E. P. Torrance), humanistic, and Gestalt psychology. The present work regards divergent thinking as a cognitive component of human creative power. Divergent thinking parameters covered by the present research include the fluency, the flexibility, and the originality of thinking. Thus, this particular aspect of creativity is highlighted in this work in order to verify the chances of training for divergent thinking by... [to full text]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060214_231029-60137
Date14 February 2006
CreatorsGrakauskaitė Karkockienė, Daiva
ContributorsŽelvys, Rimantas, Žilionis, Juozas, Gintilienė, Gražina, Žukauskienė, Rita, Gailienė, Danutė, Viliūnas, Vytis, Vaitkevičius, Henrikas, Vilnius Pedagogical University
PublisherLithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University
Source SetsLithuanian ETD submission system
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral thesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060214_231029-60137
RightsUnrestricted

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