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1500 BC - 479 BC
Eastern thought was collective versus Western thought of individuality -
Empahasis on individuals guardian spirit brought about the idea of genius graduation led to the individual's destructive and constructive abilities and appetites.
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Association with madness that reappeared later and first half of 20th century.
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Seen as a rnales creative power with the exception of child birth
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Creation was the artisan doing God's work on Earth. According to Boorstin, he describes it as as people's kinship with God for their power to create.
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A perspective of male's with special talents or unusual ablities arose.
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Emphasized that great artists and artisans were recognized that those qualities were of their own abilities and perspective.
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He was the first major figure to recognize how important imagination was in human thought and planning.
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During the Enlightenment, they were able to move beyond a concern with imagination, individual freedom and scoiety's authority in human affairs.
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They were known for their scientific works of discovery and cultural and religious disruption. After Enlightenment, there was a change in perceiving the laws of the physical world (scientific knowledge) related to human existence and the social purposes it could serve.
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Four important distinctions about creativity: (1) genius was divorced from the supernatural, (2) genius, although exceptional, was a potential in every individual, (3) talent and genius were to be distinguished from one another, (4) their potential and exercise depend on the political atmosphere at the time.
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Spontaneity and genius needed no education
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Recognized the need for a science of human behavior
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Felt that creative genius could store away ideas for future combinations.
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Distinction of convergent and divergent thinking
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An intellectual breakthrough for understanding creativity due to solving problems through successful adaptation and individual in character.
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The study of differences and the need for eugenics as a deliberate program to scientifically increase British tallent. The selection of eminent persons as subjects of obvious creativity.
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Creativity was thought to have mystical origins. These athors characteristics were similar to themes in the 20th century:(a) What is creativity?, (b) Who has creativity?, (c) What are the chracteristics of creative people?, (d) Who should benefit from creativity?, (e) Can creativity be increased through conscious effort?
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Formulated idea of divergent thinking
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They were doing emphirical investigations on intelligence tests with Binet's test, including items he believed requried imagination and what is now called divergent thinking.
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Earliest American psychologis to take a research interest in genius.
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Researchers on creativity were in the avant-garde of a new version of individualism. Noted history of the concepts of ego and self. Exaggerated less creative person's deficiences.