The Person, the Product, and the Response: Conceptual Problems in the Assessment of Creativity1

Jackson, Philip W.; Messick, Samuel

doi:10.1002/j.2333-8504.1964.tb00695.x

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“…They also represent two major criteria for creativity of a novel product (Cropley & Cropley, 2005). Jackson and Messick (1965) proposed that novel products can be evaluated in terms of the external and internal criteria. The former are about the effectiveness of a novel product that is addressed by the question of "does it work?"…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking in multiple directions: Hyperspace categories in divergent thinking.

Acar¹,

Runco²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Previous empirical studies of divergent thinking (DT) have measured originality by identifying ideas that are unusual or remote but not necessarily divergent. The present investigation used the same kind of open-ended tasks as previous investigations but operationalized scores to capture truly and literally divergent ideas. To this end, 13 dimensions were identified and used to categorize ideas from six DT tasks. These 13 categories represented a kind of ideational hyperspace and insured that actual divergence of thought was captured. Interitem and interrater correlations indicated that 11 of the 13 hyperspace categories were reliable. Furthermore, the tendency to give a large number of ideas within each category was positively associated with originality and fluency. When fluency was statistically controlled, several of the categories (i.e., impractical, synthetic, breadth, non-natural, infeasible, playful, and remote) were positively related with originality, whereas the complementary categories (e.g., practical, nonsynthetic, depth) were negatively related to the originality of both verbal and figural DT. A composite Literal Divergent Thinking (LiDT) Index, calculated by taking all categories into account, was positively associated with attitudes about originality, even after fluency was statistically controlled. The present effort was the first investigation of LiDT and both limitations and direction for future research are explored. Given the reliability of the new LiDT scores, future research should be conducted to determine whether or not LiDT will predict creative thinking more accurately than the traditional indices of DT.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking in multiple directions: Hyperspace categories in divergent thinking.

Acar¹,

Runco²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…Jackson and Messick [37] described surprisingness as an impact of the unusualness and unexpectedness which ''may shock or amaze us". Surprisingness is associated with novelty and is often experienced through unexpected features, such as an unusual application of or combination of existing thoughts and ideas; unpredicted transformation of problem space [10,60]; or the (unanticipated) simplicity of a solution to a complex problem [51].…”

Section: Surprisingnessmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…it should be workable and effective in solving a problem. Jackson and Messick [37] described value through appropriateness including correctness as well as fit of the creative product with the context of use. Depending on the context of use and domain of application (for example in visual and performance arts, business decision making, or engineering projects), value can be seen from different perspectives (for example aesthetics, monetary value, or functionality).…”

Section: Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

A framework for understanding creativity in requirements engineering

Nguyen

Shanks

2009

Information and Software Technology

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“…Products can also take the form of new ways of symbolizing an area of knowledge. Jackson and Messick (1965) distinguished between external criteria of the effectiveness of novel products (e.g., the appropriateness of the novelty to a problem or issue) and internal criteria such as logic, harmony among the elements of the product, and pleasingness. They thus added, what are to some extent, aesthetic criteria to the definition.…”

Section: Effective Noveltymentioning

confidence: 99%