Exploring Creativity: Understanding its Concept, Relationship with Intelligence, and Effective Techniques for Cultivation
Creativity: Concept, relationship with intelligence, techniques for fostering creativity *THE CONCEPT OF CREATIVITY* Creativity can be seen as the following: a divine quality, serendipitous activity, ‘planned luck’, endurance and ‘method’. Petrowski stated that “creativity research belongs to the baby-boom generation, beginning in earnest when Guilford directed the American Psychological Association in his 1950 presidential address to focus on this important but neglected area”. The existence of creativity as a modern term emerged from the results of the pioneering efforts of Guilford (1950) and Torrance (1962, 1974). Guilford and Torrance were psychometric theorists and they attempted to measure creativity from a psychometric viewpoint. *CREATIVITY: DEFINITION* Guilford (1950) defined creativity as “...