| Description |
1 online resource (286 p.) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Aging and Creativity -- Aging and Creativity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Plan -- Approach -- 1 -- Creativity: introduction -- Introduction -- What is creativity? -- Creative products: the standard definition-"novelty and value" -- Problems with the value criterion. Creativity as intentional novelty? -- Intention and serendipity -- Intentional use of chance -- Aleatory art -- Automatism -- Assessing novelty -- Novelty and nonobviousness: the case of patents -- Novelty: recognition versus generation -- Creativity: big- and little-, mini-, and pro |
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Problems: routine, insight, and creative -- Defining problems -- Solving routine, noninsight problems -- Heuristic search: hill-climbing -- Means-ends analysis (problem-reduction) -- Insight problems -- Creative problems -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 2 -- Age and aging -- Introduction -- Chronological aging -- Defining "old age" -- Life expectancy -- Life span -- Supercentenarians -- Population aging -- Overview -- Biological aging -- Normal aging -- Visible changes -- Invisible changes -- Aging and disease -- Connecting aging to disease -- A healthy old age? |
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Why do we age biologically? -- Programmed theories of aging -- Damage theories of aging -- Overview -- Psychological aging -- Life-span development -- Freud -- Jung -- Erikson -- Super -- Adaptation -- Activity versus disengagement -- Selective optimization and compensation -- Socioemotional selectivity theory -- Personality -- Personality definitions -- Trait approaches -- Different types of change over the lifespan -- Stability or change? -- Openness to experience -- Life events and personality change -- Health and personality change -- Personality disorders-the dark side -- Overview |
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Social aging -- Overview -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 3 -- Creative competence and age -- Introduction -- Divergent thinking tasks -- The pattern of age effects on divergent thinking -- Time limits and age-divergent performance patterns -- Working memory capacity, inhibition, and age-divergent performance pattern -- Cohort effects on divergent thinking? -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 4 -- Real world studies of creative productivity with age -- Introduction -- Adolphe Quetelet -- George Miller Beard -- Harvey C. Lehman: age and achievement |
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Domain variations -- Wayne Dennis's critique of Lehman -- Hertzog (2020) evaluation of Lehman -- Wayne Dennis studies of productivity and age (1966) -- Lindauer on aging and creativity in art -- Galenson: conceptual young geniuses and experimental old masters? -- Conceptual v. exploratory: dichotomy or dimensions? -- The issue of "Late Style" -- Swansong effect -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 5 -- Protective factors and risk factors for later life creativity -- Introduction -- Protective factors -- Versatility -- Longevity -- Precocity |
| Summary |
"Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output. The book reviews and summarizes both lab-based and real-world-based studies. Changes in working memory, speed of processing, learning efficiency, and retrieval from long-term memory are all discussed as factors influencing creativity, as are health changes and changes in social roles with later age. The book concludes with practical implications of age effects on creativity for older people in work and everyday life. Key features: explores cognition and creativity from early adulthood through old age; considers creativity and aging from an evidence-based perspective; includes biological, psychological, and social approaches to aging and creativity; covers age effects on perception, processing speed, working memory, and long-term memory; discusses effects of health and social role changes with age on creativity; examines links between productivity, motivation, and creativity over age." -- Publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Precocity, longevity, and productivity: joint effects |
| Subject |
Creative ability in old age.
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Cognition -- Age factors.
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Cognition -- Age factors
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Creative ability in old age
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gilhooly, Mary L. M
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| ISBN |
9780128166154 |
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0128166150 |
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