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   Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach » Read Now

   by John Baer. 130 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach...Baer, John. Creativity and divergent thinking: a...
   
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   Measuring Divergent Thinking Attitudes Related to Creative Problem Solving and Innovation Management, in Creativity Research Journal » Read Now

   by Min Basadur, Peter A. Hausdorf. 12 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Measuring Divergent Thinking Attitudes Related to Creative Problem...research that had identified 2 divergent thinking attitudes related to organizational...creative...
   
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   Children's Divergent Thinking Improves When They Understand False Beliefs, in Creativity Research Journal » Read Now

   by Thomas Suddendorf, Claire M. Fletcher-Flinn. 14 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Childrens Divergent Thinking Improves When They Understand False...given 3 false-belief tasks and a divergent-thinking task. Those children who passed...original items, in...
   
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   Modeling Divergent Thinking through Picture Books, in Roeper Review » Read Now

   by Karen N. Holliday. 2 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...Modeling divergent thinking through picture books. by...picture book characters to model divergent thinking has given me an opportunity to...begin guiding children towards...
   
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   The Effects of Positive and Negative Mood on Divergent-Thinking Performance, in Creativity Research Journal » Read Now

   by Suzanne K. Vosburg. 8 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Positive and Negative Mood on Divergent-Thinking Performance Suzanne K...positive and negative mood on divergent-thinking performance were examined...task performance...
   
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   Domain-Based Scoring of Divergent-Thinking Tests: Validation Evidence in an Occupational Sample, in Creativity Research Journal » Read Now

   by Michael D. Mumford, Michelle A. Marks, Mary Shane Connelly, Stephen J. Zaccaro, Julie F. Johnson. 13 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Domain-Based Scoring of Divergent-Thinking Tests: Validation Evidence...accrued for the validity of divergent-thinking tests, it has not been overwhelming...that they have...
   
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   Effects of Allowing Examinees to Select Questions on a Test of Divergent Thinking, in Applied Measurement in Education » Read Now

   by Donald E. Powers, Randy Elliot Bennett. 23 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...Select Questions on a Test of Divergent Thinking Donald E. Powers and Randy...or for the kind of measure (divergent thinking) that we studied here. The...proficiency as...
   
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   Affect and Creativity: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process (Includes discussion of Divergent Thinking in multiple chapters) » Read Now

   by Sandra Walker Russ. 136 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...affective processes involved in divergent thinking, memory, and cognitive flexibility...of responses as in creative divergent thinking. Research has supported the...or...
   
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   Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice ("Creativity, Play, and Cognitive Processes" begins on p. 9) » Read Now

   by Sandra W. Russ. 181 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

   Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only...

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   Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only begun. Extensive studies by developmental researchers have, however, strongly supported the importance of play for children. Much knowledge is being accumulated about the ways in which play is involved in the development of cognitive, affective, and personality processes that are crucial for adaptive functioning. However, there has been a yawning gap between research findings and useful suggestions for practitioners. Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy represents the first effort to bridge the gap and place play therapy on a firmer empirical foundation. Sandra Russ applies sophisticated contemporary understanding of the role of play in child development to the work of mental health professionals who are trying to design intervention and prevention programs that can be empirically evaluated. Never losing sight of the complex problems that face child therapists, she integrates clinical and developmental research and theory into a comprehensive, up-to-date review of current approaches to conceptualizing play and to doing both therapeutic play work with children and the assessment that necessarily precedes and accompanies it. The book includes a presentation of Russ's recently revised Affect in Play Scale and, in an appendix, a complete manual for it. Clinicians, trainees, and students will welcome Russ's clear guidelines for empirically supported practice; researchers will appreciate her suggestions for new directions to explore.

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    Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight ("Divergent Thinking Strategies" begins on p. 189) » Read Now

    by Alane Jordan Starko. 499 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library

    The third edition of this well-known text continues the mission of its predecessors--to help teachers link research and theory regarding creativity to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Part I (chapters 1-4) includes information on theories of creativity, characteristics of creative...

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    The third edition of this well-known text continues the mission of its predecessors--to help teachers link research and theory regarding creativity to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Part I (chapters 1-4) includes information on theories of creativity, characteristics of creative individuals, talent development, and motivation and creativity. Part II (chapters 5-8) includes strategies designed to explicitly teach creative thinking, to weave creative thinking into content area instruction, and to organize basic classroom activities (grouping, lesson planning, assessment, grading) in ways that support students' creativity. *Pedagogy --Within each chapter reflection questions and sample lesson plans help the reader adapt ideas to their own teaching situations. *Changes --In addition to general updating, there is new material on cross-cultural concepts of creativity, on teaching for creativity in an age of standards (including lessons tied directly to state standards), and on collaborative creativity. * Audiences --This book is suitable for any course that deals wholly or partly with creativity in teaching, teaching the gifted and talented, or teaching thinking and problem solving. Such courses are variously found in departments of special education, curriculum and instruction, or educational psychology.

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