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With an increasing degree of complexity in the retail business, future business success for retail professionals will likely require creative problem-solving abilities. Therefore, there is a need for retail merchandising programs to emphasize creative problem solving because creativity can be learned. In this study, we share how an undergraduate-level creative problem-solving class is designed ...

Age-related differences in cognitive processes were used to understand agerelated declines in creativity. According to the Geneplore model (Finke, Ward, & Smith, 1992), there are two phases of creativity — generating an idea and exploring the implications of the idea — each with different underlying cognitive processes. These two phases are measured in the Creative Invention Task (CIT; Finke, 1...

Following the notion of relative importance of the right hemisphere (RH) in creative thinking, we explored the possibility of enhancing creative problem solving by artificially activating the RH ahead of time using unilateral hand contractions. Participants attempted to complete the Remote Associates Test after squeezing a ball with either their left or right hand. As predicted, participants wh...

Creative thinking is identified with the process which includes fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. This creative habit can be trained by applying a problem-solving model, namely learning problem solving, this model one of constructivist learning. The research focus solving-based to students' thinking. Participants are students SMA Negeri 1 Masbagik for 2019/2020 academic year cl...

This paper is an attempt to present a formal coherent framework for creative visual thinking. First, fundamentals of creativity and creative thought are discussed. Then designer’s dialogue with graphical outputs based on the constructive perception is analyzed. Constructive perception is defined as a composition of design actions combining normal seeing with visual imagination. The proposed fra...

The conditions under which students are more likely to generate creative outcomes and the thinking processes they use have attracted increasing interest in recent years. A major focus has been on the teaching of thinking skills to achieve this. The present study examined a related issue; students belief s about whether they can be successful in producing creative outcomes. This is their self ef...