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Creativity, Curiosity, and the Role of Time in Innovation, Exams of Business Administration

Central Piedmont Community CollegeBusiness Administration

Various aspects of creativity, including intrinsic motivation, the 4 cs of creativity, the 4 ps framework, and the components of divergent thinking. It also delves into the role of knowledge, education, and curiosity in the creative process. Additionally, the document discusses the concepts of puzzles vs. Mysteries, serendipity, and the impact of technology like google and quartz clocks on innovation. Insights into the work of influential figures like einstein, galileo, and csikszentmihalyi, and their contributions to our understanding of creativity and innovation. Overall, this document offers a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted nature of creativity and its relationship with various social, technological, and historical factors.

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Business 202 Exam 1 Detailed Questions And
Expert Answers
Intrinsic motivators (Dan Pink video) - ANS Intrinsic Motivation: the desire to do
things because it matters. Involves autonomy, mastery, and purpose. More
effective than doing business with rewards and punishments.
4 C Creativity - ANS 1. "Little C" or everyday creativity- ex) Come up with your own
recipe (everyday examples)
2. "Mini C" being deliberately and meaningfully creative- ex) writing poetry or a
kids story
3. "Pro-C" where your creations begin to generate funds for you and you earn a
living because of your creativity- ex) photographer, graphic designer
4. "BIG C" or eminent creativity (final level of creativity) where your creativity has
made a lasting impression on a specific field and finds a place in history- ex) Da
Vinci, Picasso, Mark Twain
4 P's Framework - ANS 1) Person- we identify the traits of these people and try to
asses the different styles of creativity. (Think of the tricycle metaphor) Creative
pe1ople are positive, healthy, highly-evolved, mature, self-actualizing,
unrestrained to pressure
2) Product- the "artifacts" of the creative process. Studies are still being done
about what makes a product creative.
3) Process- Studying how normal creatives come about their ideas. Many different
ways. Divergent thinking: used to generate new ideas due to annoyances with
something.
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Intrinsic motivators (Dan Pink video) - ANS Intrinsic Motivation: the desire to do things because it matters. Involves autonomy, mastery, and purpose. More effective than doing business with rewards and punishments. 4 C Creativity - ANS 1. "Little C" or everyday creativity- ex) Come up with your own recipe (everyday examples)

  1. "Mini C" being deliberately and meaningfully creative- ex) writing poetry or a kids story
  2. "Pro-C" where your creations begin to generate funds for you and you earn a living because of your creativity- ex) photographer, graphic designer
  3. "BIG C" or eminent creativity (final level of creativity) where your creativity has made a lasting impression on a specific field and finds a place in history- ex) Da Vinci, Picasso, Mark Twain 4 P's Framework - ANS 1) Person- we identify the traits of these people and try to asses the different styles of creativity. (Think of the tricycle metaphor) Creative pe1ople are positive, healthy, highly-evolved, mature, self-actualizing, unrestrained to pressure
  1. Product- the "artifacts" of the creative process. Studies are still being done about what makes a product creative.
  2. Process- Studying how normal creatives come about their ideas. Many different ways. Divergent thinking: used to generate new ideas due to annoyances with something.

Brainstorming is a tool to come up with ideas and is NOT creative problem solving. Should encompass the three communication methods Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic Convergent Thinking: Used to evaluate and explore ideas, build upon divergent ideas,

  1. Press- "Psychological Climate" Complex patterns of emotions, ideas, behaviors, and symbols that are expected, reinforced, and rewarded in a particular group. Culture is everywhere. "Climate" consists of conditions that have intervening effects on day to day operational outcomes and psychological dispositions of an organization's employees. Creativity definitions - ANS Rapidly changing environments w/ complex & diverse elements require flexible & innovative responses. Rigid operating systems are ineffective in such environments. Four components of divergent thinking - ANS Divergent thinking: used to generate new ideas
  2. fluency- defer judgement
  3. flexibility-generate a lot of ideas
  4. originality-strive for a wild and crazy ideas
  5. elaboration-seek combinations 3 Affective Skills of creative individual - ANS 1. Experimentation: Active applied approach

โ— PPCo- Tools to use for convergent thinking - ANS โ—‹ Pulses- Generate the advantages or pulses of the idea โ—‹ Potentials- Generate below some positive outcomes or future spin offs that might occur as a result of this โ—‹ Concerns- major limitations of the idea โ—‹ Overcoming Major Concern: restate concern that is the biggest obstacle, generate ideas to overcome it Role of Knowledge - ANS โ— Existing knowledge is framed as the enemy of creativity when in fact all new ideas are made up of old ideas. Successful innovators and artists have vast knowledge which they obtain effortlessly. Without knowledge, including factual knowledge, no one can be creative, knowledge gives curiosity staying power. Knowledge in long term memory is far more useful. Role of education - ANS The role of education is that the school system is educating people out of their capacities and creativity. The main purpose of education is to help students get a degree and teach the "fundamental subjects" such as mathematics rather focus on the arts. The education system doesn't teach students that you can make something out of yourself if you want to be an artist or dancer. Types of curiosity - ANS 1) Diverse- desire for novelty, no particular process, boredom is furiously averted or deferred - its impulsive & irresistible: it seizes us

  1. Epistemic- directed attempt to build understanding, its hard work requiring sustained cognitive effort
  1. Empathic- curiosity about thoughts and feelings of other people: try to put yourself in shoes/mind of the other person Role of questions - ANS Role of questions is important for the role of development. It also helps us reach the goal of questions vs. answers. Ways to stay curious - ANS Role of questions is important for the role of development. It also helps us reach the goal of questions vs. answers. Curiosity zone - ANS Curiosity zone- is next door to what you already know, just before you feel you know too much (when we know nothing about a subject, hard to engage our brain, not interested) Information gap - ANS We feel curious when there is a gap between what we know and what we want to know. We are not good at spotting our own information gaps: inclines us to be less curious Puzzles vs mysteries - ANS Puzzles are orderly: they have a beginning and an end. Once missing information is found, it's not a puzzle anymore. Mysteries are murkier, less neat. Puzzles tend to be how many or where questions: mysteries are more likely why or how. Serendipity - ANS Serendipity- deficit makes innovation harder, because innovation relies on unexpected collisions of knowledge and ideas.

Flow concept - ANS "Flow state" or "Flow experience"- highly sought after affective state. Those in flow are not conscious of the experience at the moment. Creativity model info - ANS Form a triangle: -Individual: relationship between child and master at young age -Other Person's: relationship between individual and others -Work: relationship between the individual and work/labor Family Father manufactured electrical appliances Love of objects Family were "free thinkers" Olympiad The Olympiad was a special small group of friends. The friends were Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht. They pursued a systematic program of reading that included works in philosophy, math, and other scientific texts and met regularly to converse ideas. Education -Progressive canton school in Aarua -Zurich Polytechnic Institute -Studied wide variety of topics- Geography, Politics, Anthropology, Geology, Works of Goethe -Frustrated by formal physics -Self taught on many topics including music -Compulsion to put himself on opposition of conventional wisdom.

Gedanken - ANS gift of envisioning problems and situations of relevance, and carrying out vivid and revealing mental puzzlements. Childhood - ANS Lacked mentor/ sponsor - Dyslexic Imagined and pondered puzzles - Loner Posed Gritty questions - Prodigy Late speaker - Self-taught Influencers - ANS James Clark Maxwell - he influenced Einstein by linking the theories of electricity and magnetism. "Revelation" Information spillover - ANS : is an economic term for an information hub where new ideas quickly spillover and move through the entire population Key inventions - spectacles, microscope, telescope, fiber optics and their impact The Hummingbird Effect - ANS Sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. Ex. Creation of glass > creation of mirror > self portraits in renaissance area. Creation of glass> creation of writing press> higher literacy rate> realization of far sightedness Think about the butterfly in California and when it flaps it's wings, it causes a hurricane to stir in the Mid-Atlantic (i read this in the book).

Mass production Accurate time created safer global shipping networks supplying raw materials. Times zones - ANS In 1840, Great Britain synced their time to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). In 1883, at St. Louis railroad convention, William Allen proposed a shift from 50 time zones to the 4 distinct time zones Role of quartz - ANS Quartz time new possibility to computation Quartz is less vulnerable to changes in temperature, humidity, and movement. Without the accuracy from the quartz clock, computers would be useless (created microprocessors) The accuracy of quartz exposes the variability of earth's rotation Brought to light the unreliability of the solar system as a measure of time Atomic clock: Faster and more precise than quartz Dennison impact - ANS the watchmaker who make it shipper/cheaper Started mass producing watches and offering at a low price point Made time more important to the general public Guest Speakers - ANS Eric Johnson - Innovative Media

  1. you don't have to pay to rent equipment
  2. There are orientations that teach you how to use certain equipment
  1. -They have sewing and crafting suction.