Construct your answers to the above questions (What does a creative person look like? What are the creative processes used by creative people? Can creativity be developed?).
What does a creative person look like?
Creative people are artist, poets, musicians, writers, researchers, business people, and scientist.
The big five model of personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness uses the imagination to create situations, experiences, and ideas. Conscientiousness is a disposition of organized, orderly, punctual, and detail oriented. Extraversion is looking for social situations, thrilling experiences, and generally happy. Agreeableness is a warm, friendly, and trusting disposition. Neuroticism is a negative emotions from experience such as anxiety, fear, sadness, and depression. The big five model goes from low to high as poles of opposition. The personality traits have an influence on behavior of individuals. The connection between the traits, behavior, and creativity is characterized by two key components. The components are that personality separates us from one another, which makes us unique and enduring or consistent to the individuals. In other words, personality endures to how individuals think, act, and feel. The creativity is thoughts or behaviors that are original and meaningful.
Biology and personality are tie with the following functions:
Genetic and epigenetic influences on
There are five major dimensions of personality: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. Neuroticism includes anxiety, depression, hostility, impulsiveness, self-consciousness, and vulnerability. Warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement seeking and positive emotions characterize extraversion. Openness includes openness to fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas and values. The facets of agreeableness include altruism, compliance, modesty, straightforwardness, tender-mindedness, and trust. Conscientiousness includes achievement striving, competence, deliberation, dutifulness, order and self-discipline (Article 3).
In some situations, even the bravest of people could falter and react in a cowardly way or vice versa depending on your strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes a life-or-death scenario can be that situation. In "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford is stranded on a island where he discovers he will be hunted for three days. The rules are simple: if he makes the three days alive, he wins, otherwise, General Zarroff, the privileged owner of the island, wins his own game. Rainsford fights harder than ever before to beat the odds and come out of Ship-Trap island unscathed and get his justified revenge. To continue, High Noon is the iconic movie about a humble sherif with a dedication to his town. He, in a sense, is being hunted as well by a
The “Big Five” personality classification model includes the traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. The Big Five are broad, global traits that are associated with behaviors at work.
One main goal of psychology has been established a model to describe and understand human personality. The five-factor model of personality is the most widely used model in describing personality types. The components of the Big Five are extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
Other core personality variables that are present at birth and innate to human beings. To better understand the biological and genetic factors that affect personality one must consider how prominent researchers define personality. According to Joshua Wilt and William Revelle (2015), personality is “the coherent pattern of affect, cognition, and desires (goals) as they lead to behavior” (p. 479). Correspondingly, the most prevalent personality framework is the “Big Five,” or the five-factor model of personality developed by McCrae and Costa who specifically assume that traits are biologically based, inherent tendencies that persistently influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors throughout life (Broderick, & Blewitt, 2015). The five traits are as follows: (1) Extraversion which has the characteristics of being outgoing, enthusiastic, active, talkative, and assertive. (2) Agreeableness which has the characteristics of being warm, forgiving, sympathetic, kind, affectionate, generous, and compliant. (3) Conscientiousness which has the characteristics of being organized, reliable, careful, responsible, self-controlled, and efficient. (4) Neuroticism which has the characteristics of being tense, sensitive, moody, anxious, self-pitying, and self-conscious. (5) Openness to Experience which has the characteristics of being insightful, imaginative, artistic, curious, having wide-ranging interests, and a positive orientation to learning.
Harold Bloom, sharing his viewpoint on Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, stated that “The monster is at once more intellectual and more emotional than his maker; indeed, he excels Frankenstein…The greatest paradox and most astonishing achievement of the novel is that the monster is more human than his creator.” Bloom’s comment implies that one of the characters is superior to the other, yet, based on comparison, both Frankenstein and the monster equally lack in intelligence and emotion and in the end, neither one is more human than the other. In fact, as the story progresses, Frankenstein and the monster become so similar that some critics argue they are two halves of the same being, thereby endorsing that neither one is superior. Therefore,
1.3 Critically analyze how creativity and creative learning can support young children’s emotional, social, intellectual, communication and physical development
“On Defining Creativity” is a dry and scholarly article written to persuade readers’ views regarding usage of the terms “creative” and “creativity.” The article is convincing, and uses logical reasoning combined with etymology to craft an argument. “How ‘Rock Star’ Became a Business Buzzword” is an observation (rather than an attempt to redefine a word like “On Defining Creativity”) that is entertaining and well-supported. Both articles are convincing in their own respects, each employing different techniques. However, the articles do not make conclusive statements: “On Defining Creativity” ends in a multitude of questions and a call for more thought on the term “creativity,” and “How ‘Rock Star’ Became a Business Buzzword” ends with a tale
In contemporary psychology, the Big Five Personality Inventory of personality are five broad domains or dimensions of personality which are used to describe human personality. The Big five factors are Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. The Big Five structure was derived from statistical analyses of which traits tend to co-occur in people 's descriptions of themselves or other people. The underlying correlations are probabilistic, and exceptions are possible. For example, talkativeness and assertiveness are both traits associated with Extraversion, but they do not go together by logical necessity: you could imagine somebody that is assertive but not talkative. However, many
In our current world, gender expectations apparent in our society be traced back to ancient mythology. Women of today find inspiration in beauty and fashion often unknowingly form ancient cultures. Similarly, popular masculine attributes are relatable to the myths of heroes and important gods. Basing current social standards upon mythological texts however creates problems. In striving to achieve such physical greatness people of this era are attempting to reach the impossible: to become a god or goddess of immortal standards themselves. By relating ancient myths to that of the current media, one can view the effect that the ancient world has upon the social standards apparent in our society today.
The big five personality traits are traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness is how open someone is to trying different things or how adventurous they are. Someone that rates very high in openness would have a wide variety of interests. Conscientiousness is having good control of one’s thoughts and urges, being organized in life. Extraversion is how sociable a person is. If the person is talkative, easy to get along with, and likes being around others they would be an extravert. Agreeableness is how easily someone is to agree with another person. People that rate highly in agreeableness are also known as nice and understanding. Neuroticism is instability in one’s emotions. People high in
What makes a good software developer is creativity. Anyone could have the skills to make software, but to actually develop something new takes creativity. They need to be able to think outside of the box. There are many skills needed to be a good software developer. Obviously a base knowledge of software and programing language is needed to perform at a minimum level. The ability to learn quickly is a key trait because what they are developing is new and you almost learn as you go as you develop something. Learning quickly keeps you up to pace with everyone else. You have got to be a good problem solver. Developers are going to run into new challenges everyday, multiple times a day. Anyone who is creating something new and exciting is
The five factor model personality theory states that an individual's personality consists of five general traits. These traits are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness (King, 2016, pg. 475). Each of the traits are put in a certain order according to how they appear from the factor analysis (King, 2016, pg. 475). Factor analysis is a method that researchers used to group together similar traits which are used to describe personality (King, 2016, pg. 475). In the trait sequence, neuroticism is the first trait and it is the trait that describes a pessimistic personality or someone who lacks confidence and a positive mindset (King, 2016, pg. 476). Extraversion is the opposite trait of neuroticism and is the trait that individuals who are social and able to interact well with others portray (King, 2016, pg. 476). Openness is being receptive to various creative views and the ability to express oneself in a unique, individualistic manner (King, 2016, pg. 476). The agreeableness trait describes a personality aspect where the individual is dedicated to good deeds and believes in the potential that people have to be good (King, 2016, pg. 476). The last trait of the five factor model theory is conscientiousness which is the trait is used to describe an individual who is dependable and attentive to their actions (King, 2016, pg. 477).
A “trait” is a temporally stable, cross-situational individual difference. Presently, for studying personality traits there are two important models with five factors, Costa & Mc Crae’s Five Factor Model, and Goldberg’s Big Five (as sighted in Mc Adams, 1992). In Five-Factor Model there are five traits named as Extraversion, openness, Agreeableness conscientiousness and Neuroticism. The Big Five model replaces “neuroticism” with “emotional stability”, and names the “openness” factor “intelligence”. The Big Five are based upon factor analysis of the entire trait-descriptive adjective in a natural language, as collected from a dictionary. The Big Five are meant to provide a comprehensive description of phenotypic
In accordance with the definition of Raghavan and Cafeo (2010), “creativity occurs through a process by which an agent uses its ability to generate ideas, products or solutions that are novel and valuable” (Raghavan and Cafeo, 2010, p. 22). Even though this definition emphasises the individual ability and potential of agents to participate in creative thinking and decision-making, Raghavan and Cafeo (2010) failed to demonstrate any