Divergent production in gifted adolescents using timed vs. untimed stimuli with creative prompting |
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| Authors: | Gregg A Johns Linda W Morse David T Morse |
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| Institution: | 1. Staff psychologist at the child and adolescent inpatient unit , Mississippi State Hospital ,;2. Professor of educational psychology , Mississippi State University ,;3. Professor of educational psychology and psychology , Mississippi State University , |
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| Abstract: | Although creativity and expertise are related, they are nonetheless very different things. Expertise does not usually require creativity, but creativity generally does require a certain level of expertise. There are similarities in the relationships of both expertise and creativity to domains, however. Research has shown that just as expertise in one domain does not predict expertise in other, unrelated domains, creativity in one domain does not predict creativity in other, unrelated domains. People may be expert, and people may be creative, in many domains, or they may be expert, or creative, in few domains or none at all, and one cannot simply transfer expertise, or creativity, from one domain to another, unrelated domain. The domain specificity of creativity matters crucially for creativity training, creativity assessment, creativity research, and creativity theory. The domain specificity of creativity also means that interdisciplinary thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and interdisciplinary creativity are even more important than one would assume if creativity were domain general. |
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| Keywords: | creativity creativity assessment domain specificity expertise interdisciplinary thinking |
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