Humans are unique species because we have the ability to adapt to any environments. This ability sets us apart from other animals because we have invented many tools that enable us to alter our way of living to any environment: clothing, medicine, agriculture, food and so on. Whether humans chose to engage in the environment is up to them. Even though we have the capability of adapting, how do humans assess the effectiveness of an environment for their creative output? An enriched environment excites brain cells, making them more active and allowing for the growth of new dendrites, which then increases the surface area of the brain cell, creating more space for brain cells to make new connections . Therefore, everyone has a unique collection of connections between brain cells and these personal experiences create individuality. It has been notice through brain functioning images that, “the front of the brain is associated with the highest, most deeply human abilities—what are sometimes called ‘‘controlling’’ and ‘‘executive’’ functions of the brain” involving the prefrontal cortex region which plays a prominent role in assessing ones ability to create. It has been implied that the prefrontal cortex is one of the main players when performing the computation that transforms the novelty into creative behavior . Therefore, one might agree that in order to generate novel creativity one must be in an enriched environment. This could be because there is more information and social interaction, which could influence one to make remote associations and have more possibility for solutions during problem solving. However, enriched environments can be stressful, which could limit the performance of ones creative ability an...
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This paper will examine the link that exists between creativity and solitude, and various implications that creative brilliance may have on society in general and the individual in particular. The focus will be on political, social and economic alterations that creativity produces in an environment.
In this study 491 twelve-year-old children were asked to complete surveys that would allow researchers to measure variations in creativity. Of these 491 students, 53% were female, 34% were African American, and 66% were Caucasian American. Due to this variation in population researchers were testing they were able to get an ov...
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In their article, “The Creativity Crisis”, authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explore the urgency of the downfall in the public’s “creativity quotient.” Bronson and Merryman emphasize the necessity for young children to be imaginative. Through an IBM poll, they verify that with the decrease of creativity in our society comes an array of consequences seen in the work field. The authors remind readers of another reason for the importance of creativity; they argue that creative ideas can solve national matters. Hence, Branson and Merryman believe that original ideas are key for a better world. Though I concede that creativity is a vital key to the solution of many national problems, I still insist that teaching creativity,
It is important to recognize the concept of creativity to familiarise the idea of what the neuroscientific can do or not in this field. Briefly, the consensus is that something creative is novel, useful (cooperative, appropriate), original (never seen before) and responding to a problem (intervention)(Pope, 2005)(Sawyer, 2012).
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Herein lies the problem. The children that we are educated are and will be faced with new challenges that current education systems all over the world have been failing to meet. It would seem that structures of mass domain education suppress the innately imprinted creativity found in every living person and widely known specialist on the subject, Sir Ken Robinson, goes as far as saying that we are, “educating people out of their creativity” (Giang, 2013). But if the school system is to make adjustments to explore and cultivate creativity more how are they to do so without losing total structure? Robinson acknowledges this by saying that, “in every creative approach some of the things we’re looking for are hard, if not impossible to quantify. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t matter.”
Some creative ideas are amazing, simple and others complex. Creativity is a process, and it improves when a person continually work hard and come out with new ideas. Harris (1998)
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