H220 Controversey #3

Creativity

use imagination to make new ideas

intelligence

mental capacity to learn, reason, problem solve

WAIS

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

How is WAIS measured?

verbal and performance

cognitive reserve capacity

degree of unused learning potential

what happens with cognitive reserve capacity

decrease fluid intelligence, but increase crystallized intelligence

Decrement with Compensation

cognitive declines compensated by acquired experience

realist

decrease in fluid intelligence, decrease in average performance

optimist

factors other than chronological age account for decrease in intelligence

Age and Achievement

Harvey Lehman

Message Age and Achievemet

evaluate human creativity and peak performance based on age

Creativity decreases with age

Growing Old, Living Long

Laura Carstenson

Message of Laura Carstenson Grown Old

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST)

SST

Compress time horizon shifts motivation to emotional pursuit, ensure they are emotionally fulfilled

SST

Chronological vs PERCEIVED age

Mature Mind, Positive Power of Aging brain

Gene Cohen

Developmental intelligence

wisdom

Developmental Intelligence

maturing of persons’ experience, brain integration of capacities

3 advanced developmental intelligence

relativistic, dualistic, systematic

relativistic

knowledge must be taken into context

dualistic

uncover/resolve contradictions in opposing views

systematic

see larger picture

Peak/Decline Model

Creativity Peaks during 3rd decade of life

aging and creativity

becca levy + ellen langer

message of aging and creativity

define creativity

Creative Life Cycle Theory

Conceptual young geniuses

Conceptual young geniuses

innovation appear dramatically and suddenly

experimental old masters

innovations arrive gradually

galenson

creativity doesn’t decline after 50

Bates