Creativity Flashcards
1
Q
Measuring Creativity: 3 common ways
A
Fluency: how many ideas a person or team generates
Flexibility: how many types of ideas a person or team generates
Originality: the ability to generate unusual solutions and unique answers
2
Q
Two key skills involved in creative thinking:
A
Convergent thinking
- thinking that proceeds toward a single answer
- ideas evaluated as to their feasibility, practicality, and overall merit
Divergent thinking
-thinking that moves outward from the problem in many directions without boundaries
3
Q
4 major problems that stifle the effectiveness of team brainstorming
A
- social loafing: slacking off
- conformity
- production blocking
- performance matching
4
Q
4 types of communications place-time model
A
- Face-to-face communication
- Same time, different place
- Different time, same place
- different place, different time
