In his TED Talk (Anti-conventional Thinking) Jeffrey Baumgartner argues the following about thinking creatively: a. Artists create group projects by discussing, trying out ideas, then criticising the ideas. b. Creativity works a bit like memory. The mind forms memories and breaks them down into tiny chunks which are organised in a way the mind can retrieve them to recreate a memory.c. He calls the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, the ‘mental bureaucrat’. It is a gate keeper that applies the rules of society to prevent us from doing or saying something that is socially unacceptable, but it can also inhibit creativity.d. In order to come up with unconventional ideas you have to suppress the ‘mental bureaucrat’ in your mind so that you can combine memories from different parts of your brain.e. Artists working on group projects eventually come up with an agreed solution through an iterative process.Group of answer choicesAll answers are correct.Answers c, d and e are correct.Answers b, c, d and e are correct.Answers a, c, d and e are correct.

Which person is demonstrating creative thinking?

The video entitled ‘The Creativity Delusion: We’re all geniuses’ presents the following ideas (select the correct answers): a.. While the unconscious mind does help you organise the information you gain it is the conscious process that helps you tackle, verify and implement new ideas.b.. Breaks, especially longer breaks help because time enables you to forget the little details.c.. An experiment was conducted that sought to compare ideas by three groups of people. Some were given breaks of varying lengths and some were not given breaks. No significant difference was found in relation to participants’ ability to come up with ideas.d.. Dunker found that the solution to a problem came in a giant leap after an incubation period.e.. Solutions come through small iterative steps, observing, evaluating, iterating and building up to creation.Group of answer choicesAnswers a, b, d and e are correct.Answers a, b, c and e are correct.Answers c, b, d, and e are correct.Answers a, c, d and e are correct.

The paper entitled Time, risk, and innovation. ‘Creating space in your day to solve meaningful problems’, by Sara Gallagher argues the following: In the context of project management opportunities for innovation generally centre on problem solving.To deliver a project, a project manager may be asked to interpret business strategy, recommend, or innovate a solution or analyse the cause of a problem.Production blocking assists the brainstorming process by removing unnecessary detail.An alternative to the right brain/left brain theory is a proposition that the brain is divided into two systems – the ‘Fast brain’ reacts to ideas emotionally rather than logically and reaches for obvious answers. The ‘Slow brain’ is capable of complex analysis, imagination and critical thinking.The brainstorming ‘rule’ that there is no such thing as a bad idea blocks the ‘slow brain’ processing. Group of answer choicesAll answers are correct.Answers B, C, D and E are correct.Answers A, B, C and D are correct.Answers A, B, D and E are correct.

The characteristics of creative thinking are fluency, Elaboration, Originality and

In the _____ stage, a creative thinker uses her/his imagination to flesh out the various parts of the problem.