1. Terms in Thinking Thinking Symbol Autistic Thinking (private and personal) Directed Thinking (solving problems, creating new ideas) Concept Creative Thinking (new and useful ideas) Divergent Thinking

2. Characteristics of Creative Thinkers Independent Emotionally Expressive Likes Complex People and Stimuli Complex Personalities Sense of Humor

3. Insight Learning Suddenness of Solution Application to Other Situations

4. Strategies for Solving Problems Decomposition Working Backwards Finding Analogies Proposing Hypotheses Incubation Visualizing or Drawing

5. Fixedness (being unable to think in unusual or unconventional ways)

6. Learning Theory of Language Imitation (modeling) Reward (reinforcement) Doesn’t Account for Creativity Pretty Good in Explaining Semantics Not So Good in Explaning Syntax

7. Noam Chomsky Language Acquisition Device Notices Consistencies Explains Creativity Pretty Good in Explaining Syntax Not So Good in Explaining Semantics

8. Vocal Development Crying (hunger, anger, pain, frustration) Cooing Babbling One Word Sentences Telegraphic, Two Word Sentences (concentrates on nouns, pronouns, verbs) Six Years Old