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Do generalpurpose creativethinking skills skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain actually make much of a contribution to creative performance? Although much recent research argues against such domaintranscending skills including several new studies reported in this book the appeal of such general skills remains strong, probably because of the theoretical economy and power such skills would provide. Divergent thinking, in particular, has had an incredible staying power. Despite its many flaws, divergent thinking remains the most frequently used indicator of creativity in both creativity research and educational practice, and divergent thinking theory has a strong hold on everyday conceptions of what it means to be creative.Reviewing the available research on divergent thinking, this book presents a framework for understanding other major theories of creativity, including Mednick's associative theory and a possible connectionist approach of creativity. It reports a series of studies (including the study that won APA's 1992 Berlyne Prize) that demonstrate the absence of effects of general creativethinking skills across a range of creativityrelevant tasks, but indicate that training in divergent thinking does in fact improve creative performance across diverse task domains. The book then ties these findings together with a multilevel theory, in which a taskspecific approach to creativity is strengthened by recasting some divergentthinking concepts into domain and taskspecific forms.This book fills the gap between divergentthinking theory and more recent, modular conceptions of creativity. Rather than advocate that we simply discard divergent thinking an approach that hasn't worked, or at least hasn't happened, because of many attacks on its validity and usefulness this book shows how to separate what is useful in divergentthinking theory and practice from what is not. It shows that divergentthinking training can be valuable, although often not for the reasons trainers think it works. And it offers specific suggestions about the kinds of creativity research most needed today.
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