Creativity And Cognitive Style

Author : Vivian Renner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Effects of Modification of Cognitive Style on Creative Behavior written by Vivian Renner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to facilitate investigation of the creative process, a paradigm which suggested that molar aspects of this process may be understood most comprehensively when they are considered as a function of an individual's cognitive style was presented. The study was designed to test four major ideas: one, that preferences for a particular type of stimulus in a particular situation can be modified through learning procedures; two, that such modification will affect not only the particular stimulus in the specific situation but will also occasion a modification of the individual's cognitive style; three, that modification of one type of preference will thus generalize to other preference situations and be manifest as a change of attitude toward those situations; four, that modification of an individual's cognitive style will effect his creative behaviour. Sixty subjects participated in the experiment, in three experimental conditions: one, an experimental training condition during which subjects were exposed to art stimuli and talks which described and clarified the novel and significant attribute of the complexities in these stimuli; two, an exposure-to-stimuli control groups which received the same art stimuli but not the talks; and three, a test-control group. To test the hypotheses which predicted that individual preferences can be modified and that such modified preferences will generalize the criterion tests for initial preference and generalization (Revised Barron-Welsh Art Scale, Music Attitude Scale, and semantic differential scales) were submitted to analyses of covariance. The hypothesis which predicted modification of an individual's cognitive style was explored through factor-analytic procedures. The hypothesis which predicted effects on an individual's creative behaviour was tested by analyses of variance on creativity scores derived from the Consequences Test and the Circles Test. The major findings of the study demonstrated that through the training procedures described above, preference for a particular type of stimulus in an art situation can be modified in the direction of complexity; that such modifications will generalize and be manifest as a change of attitude toward music; that there is some suggestion that these latter effects are strong enough to be accompanied by concurrent modification of the subjects' cognitive styles; that such training, presumably through modification of his cognitive style, will facilitate an individual's verbal originality. There were also the suggestions that the Consequences originality score is positively related to an acceptance of novelty process, that the Consequences fluency score is related negatively to evaluation of complexity; that the Circles Test forms an independent factor in itself.