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Casakin, Hernan; Levy, Shalom – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
The question of how individual features affect the development of design expertise has yet to be thoroughly researched. While some works acknowledged the importance of design abilities and creative ideation for design expertise, there is no theoretical framework that explicates their relationships and supports it empirically. The present research…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Concept Formation, Design
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Chesebrough, Christine; Chrysikou, Evangelia G.; Holyoak, Keith J.; Zhang, Fengqing; Kounios, John – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
An underexplored aspect of the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity is its phenomenology; in particular, the notion that analogical reasoning is related to insight and its associated "aha!" experience. However, the relationship between these phenomena has never been directly investigated. We adapted a set of verbal…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Figurative Language, Concept Formation
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Yu, Qi; Zhang, Shun; Zhang, Jinghuan H. – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Although several studies suggest that dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene may contribute to creativity, the relationship between DRD2 and creativity still needs to be further validated. To further test the relevance of DRD2 and creativity, this study explored the association between DRD2 and creative ideation in 483 unrelated healthy Chinese…
Descriptors: Genetics, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Concept Formation
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Morales, Harold; Barnes, Mark – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2018
The Baltimore Mural Project (BMP) seeks to connect religious studies education to the growing literature on threshold concepts in order to address bottleneck areas in student learning. The project is designed for undergraduate service courses comprised of mostly non-majors: for example, world religions. Students in these courses often struggle to…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Social Justice, Photography, Qualitative Research
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Miller, Angie L. – Roeper Review, 2012
This article reviews seven different theories of giftedness that include creativity as a component, comparing and contrasting how each one conceptualizes creativity as a part of giftedness. The functions of creativity vary across the models, suggesting that while the field of gifted education often cites the importance of creativity, the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Gifted, Educational Theories, Learning Theories
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Beghetto, Ronald A.; Baxter, Juliet A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
This study had the goal of investigating the association among elementary students' (N = 276) science and math beliefs and the relationship between those beliefs and teachers' ratings of mathematical and science understanding. Results of structural path analysis indicate that in science, intellectual risk-taking (IRT; the willingness to share…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Self Efficacy, Path Analysis, Science Instruction
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IP, Grace Wai-Man; Chen, Jing; Chiu, Chi-Yue – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2006
Categorical accessibility is a cognitive factor that limits the extent of creative conceptual expansion. In the present study, we sought to establish the categorical accessibility norms in five conceptual domains among American and Hong Kong Chinese university students. In addition, we predicted that the tendency to access normatively inaccessible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Cognitive Ability, Creativity