دانلود کتاب Stimulating Creativity Volume 1: Individual Procedures

Stimulating Creativity: Volume 1, Individual Procedures discusses the psychological and social factors affecting creativity, including techniques applicable in technological and consumer-related product areas. Creativity is a process consisting of three overlapping stages—hypothesis formation, hypothesis testing, and the communication of results. The book reviews past criteria of creativity, and then suggests techniques, based on social and psychological differentiating characteristics of creativity, that can stimulate creativity. The text also considers some procedures which the individual can use to stimulate creativity, or overcome blocks that stop creativity. The book explains in detail individual procedures, group procedures, as well the techniques appropriate in each stage of the creative process. The text notes that the creative process occurs in a social context, primarily manifested during the communication stage. The book considers the following group procedures for stimulating creativity, namely, brainstorming, creative problem-solving, synectics, and a personality-insight approach. Examples of programs employed in different companies or organization can free an individual from difficulties and problems, make him more receptive to other programs, or he can use these programs as basis to develop newer programs. The book can prove insightful for psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, child educators, students or professors in psychology, for parents of young children or adolescents, and also for general readers interested in self-improvement.

From the Preface:

"This book is an outgrowth of one of the earliest creativity studies in post-World War II United States concerned with the psychological and social factors affecting creativity. After the results were presented to various lecture and seminar audiences, on nearly each occasion there were one or more persons who would ask: Can creativity be stimulated? If yes, what are the techniques for doing so? What assumptions underlie them? How effective are they?
To find the answers to these questions I became involved in a search of the literature (primarily research) and this led to the present two-volume work. The first volume presents procedures designed primarily to help individuals who can then work alone or in groups. The second volume contains procedures for groups of individuals. That procedures are divided in this manner should not deter any one reader or group from selecting what they think they can use, regardless of the section in which it appears.
The first volume also contains my theoretical orientation to creativity. I used it in my empirical research and it also served in organizing the material presented here. This orientation, succinctly stated, is: Creativity is a process that results in a novel work that is accepted as useful, tenable, or satisfying by a significant group of people at some point in time. As a process it consists of overlapping stages - hypothesis formation, hypothesis testing, and the communication of results - all of which follow a preparatory or educational stage which is not always uniquely part of the creative process. In each stage one may see the effects of *intra*personal and *inter*personal factors. All these factors reflect the fact that creativity occurs in a social context and is a function of the transactional relationships between the individual and his environment - the creating individual is both affected by and affects his environment.
This statement and other related matters, such as criteria of creativity, set the stage for discussion of the aforementioned individual and group procedures, and also prepare the reader for a presentation of procedures specially suited for each stage in the creative process. The relevance of procedures for stimulating creativity to the stages of hypothesis formation and hypothesis testing will be immediately evident."