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1
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What are the two factors in creativity? What are the four Ps?

A

Uniqueness
(originality), Usefulness
4 Ps: process, products, personality, press

2
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What are the cognitive processes looked for when testing creative people?

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Number, originality, flexibility across categories, elaboration/detail

3
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What are the most important personality traits to creativity?

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Openness (big 5)

  • interests, thinking, aesthetics, novelty
  • Decade of divergent thinking

Intelligence

  • expertise required for accomplishment
  • note: naivete sometimes useful to divergent thinking
4
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What are some environmental factors that can help foster creativity?

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Autonomous work places can foster creativity
Positive moods are useful (especially high arousal/energetic)
Norm violations (ex: people are more creative in VR because physics isn’t a thing)
Multicultural experiences (moderated by openness)

5
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What are the components of wise reasoning?

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Seeing multiple perspectives
Uncertainty
Knowledge about pragmatics of life
Prosocial motivation

6
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What are the steps to wise reasoning in an experimental setting?

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  1. put myself in the other person’s shoes
  2. believed the situation could lead to a number of different outcomes
  3. double-checked whether my opinion on the situation might be incorrect
  4. tried my best to find a way to accommodate both of us
  5. tried to see the conflict from the point of view of uninvolved person
7
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What are the six components of general intelligence?

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Spatial, numerical, memory, verbal, fluency, perceptual speed

8
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What is the heritability percentage of IQ? What is the Flynn effect?

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50-75% - people are not “blank slates”

Flynn effect: rising IQs over time, people who scored average 100 years ago would score extremely low today

9
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What are the factors that lead to accomplishment?

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Ability/intelligence (cognitive)
Mastery/drive (conative)
Interests (affective)

10
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What is impact bias? what are the subsets of immune neglect and focusing illusion?

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Tendency to overestimate intensity or duration of emotional reactions (ex: pregnancy tests, tenure decisions, sports games, elections, exams, break-ups)

Immune neglect: under-estimating all we do to cope with bad experiences (adaptation, hedonic treadmill)
Focusing illusion: failing to consider the full picture (ex: would you be happier in California)