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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Divergent thinking"”.
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Divergent thinking and hemisphericity
This study investigated the relationship between divergent thinking, assessed by the Product Improvement and Unusual Uses tests of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (1974), and hemisphericity. Hemisphericity, cerebral hemispheric dominance for language function, was assessed by a dichotic …
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Leadership traits, divergent thinking, and innovation in higher education
… institutional environment, leader’s traits, and divergent thinking to provide insight into the characteristics that drive innovation in the academic setting. The research involved a large-scale national study of college and university leaders and focused on leadership traits, divergent thinking, …
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Systematically examining the effectiveness of creativity interventions on divergent thinking
… Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Journal of Creative Behavior, which yielded 4,891 articles and 20 qualifying for the analysis. Three primary research questions guided this work, regarding the (a) interventions’ content and administration, (b) …
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Preschool Play Behaviors: The Relationship to Sociometric Status, Divergent Thinking and Classroom Materials
… and their relationship to: sociometric status, divergent thinking ability, and classroom materials. Ninety-five four-year-olds were observed during free play time and were administered three sociometric tests and a divergent thinking task. Positive nominations, negative nominations, and play …
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The Relationship of Perceived Patterns of Parent - Child Decision-Making to Divergent Thinking Ability in Gifted Children
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Exploration of the influence of emotionally primed environments on creativity and related patterns of brain activity
… would influence creativity, and in particular divergent thinking capacity. The stimuli independently considered were music and pictures. These stimuli sets had been previously studied by psychologists from a neuroscience and brain activity viewpoint. It was found that the positive emotional …
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The relationship between cognitive inhibition, mental illness, and creativity
… spectrums related to performance on a divergent thinking task and self-reports of creative achievement, as well as the contribution of cognitive inhibition as a moderating factor between these variables. 98 participants completed a 1.5 hour battery of tests that combined measures …
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Positive mood and cognition: the moderating role of appetitive motivation, neural and physiological correlates
… of more complex cognitive processes (e.g., divergent thinking in creativity), as well as those that may be described as being more basic and fundamental (e.g., promoting flexibility over stability in attentional switching). The neuropsychological theory of positive affect suggests these …
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The Effects of Humor on Cognitive Learning in a Computer-Based Environment
… that humor is an effective tool for increasing divergent thinking and information acquisition if the humor is given prior to the presentation of content material. This study used an experimental design to test if humor given prior to content presentation was more effective in helping students …
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Nurturing creativity and innovation through activity-based courses for undergrad interior design curriculum
… internal barriers, encouraging people to have divergent thinking, and crossing over disciplines can make new ideas emerge.Using the above principles and those of evidence-based design, the researcher constructed a four-model course that could be used to teach undergraduate interior design …
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Effects of induced mood on task performance
… mood tend to perform better on creativity or divergent thinking tasks and worse on tasks requiring systematic, analytic thinking than do people in other moods. Hypotheses regarding the processes underlying these effects can be grouped into those that propose that mood influences performance by …
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Designing child robot interaction for facilitating creative learning
… Standardized ways to measure creativity and divergent thinking reported that as children enter elementary school, their creativity slumps and thinking becomes more convergent, especially around the 4th grade. One cause for this is school curricula become more structured and lose the aspect of …
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Is the Reliability of Objective Originality Scores Confounded by Elaboration?
… of text-mining models as a scoring mechanism for divergent thinking (DT) tasks has sparked concerns about the ways in which automated Originality scores may be influenced by other dimensions of DT, especially Elaboration. The debate centers around the question of whether too much variance in …
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Innovative Teaching Strategies and Lesson Plans to Support Students with ADHD
… creativity and imagination – such as divergent thinking, mind-wandering, and creative incubation – are examined as potential strengths often underutilized in traditional classrooms. A comprehensive literature review establishes how these variables interact and influence the learning …
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When will they (ever) learn?
… structural holes, a network form that encourages divergent thinking and creative problem solving. Without direct evidence, we do not know if social networks affect learning, and if they do which network forms are most conducive for learning. We analyzed learning rates across 45 teams that varied …
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The relationship of birth order and socioeconomic status to the creativity of preschool children
… are needed to determine whether or not divergent thinking can be taught.
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Student Programming and Identity in French Language Studies at an Ontario College
… the use of power, prestige, economic gain and divergent thinking. However, a key conclusion drawn from this study is that learning French opens doors for communicative purposes and being able to speak another language expands one’s mind, according to the participants in the interviews. …
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Ideator Explorer: Enhancing AI-Assisted Ideation through Interactive Visualization
… of creative exploration, hindering both divergent thinking across multiple paths and the convergent synthesis of ideas. This thesis introduces and evaluates Ideator Explorer, a human-AI ideation system built upon an interactive graph visualization interface designed to overcome these …
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Measuring the effects of explicit instructions and incentives on the idea generation rate of a crowd-based population
… The project at hand engages participants in a divergent thinking exercise to measure the rate of idea generation for the crowd-based population. The findings show more unique ideas occur later in the response period, demonstrating the presence of the serial order effect; that explicitly …
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The effect of specially designed garments on the observable make- believe play behavior of four- to six-year-old females
… of make-believe play. A child, deficient in such divergent-thinking skills, would seem somewhat disadvantaged and less able to cope with a problematic environment. The present study asks the question: Can the wearing of specially designed clothing raise levels of observable make-believe behavior …
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