After reading chapter 9 I learned about how our brains develop allowing us to think and comprehend. I enjoyed reading about how we learn language. We start in the babbling stage at about 4 months of age. During the babbling stage we spontaneously utter various sounds that are unrelated to the household language. When we are about 10 months old our babbling starts to resemble household language. The next stage is the one-word stage which occurs when we are about a year old. During this stage we speak using one word. The next stage occurs when we are about 2 years old. This is the two word stage which consists of two word statements. When we are older than 2 we start using more words. Our language develops rapidly into complete sentences.
Creative Intelligence is demonstrated in reacting adaptively to novel situations and generating novel ideas. Creativity is the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. Sternberg came up with 5 components of creativity. They include:
Expertise - a well developed base of knowledge, furnishes the ideas, images, and phrases we use as mental building blocks.
Imaginative thinking skills - provide the ability to see things in novel ways, to reorganize patterns, an to make connections.
A venturesome personality - seeks new experiences, tolerates ambiguity and risk, and perseveres in overcoming obstacles.
Intrinsic motivation - is being driven more by interest, satisfaction, and challenge than by external pressures.
A creative environment - sparks, supports, and refines creative ideas.
Many people assume that I am creative just because I am good at art. I believe that creativity and artistic talent come together. I do not find myself creative because I can never come up with an idea for an art project unless someone provides one for me. Sometimes I wish that I could come up with wonderful project ideas, but usually I think too hard about a project and nothing creative comes to mind.
The most important thing I read from chapter 10 was the different types of intelligences. After taking the 80 question intelligence test I discovered that I was most intelligent in music. I kind of agree with that because I really enjoy listen to music and playing the piano. I find listening to music very relaxing and it can help me to be creative. I enjoyed taking the test because it gave me an opportunity to learn more about myself and what I am intelligent in.
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I agree with your perespective of creativity. I'm not artisitic, but I do a lot of page designing for yearbook. People tell me that they look awesome and I must be really creative. However, I usually have to get my ideas by looking at examples from other books. Creativity and talent go together, but you don't necessarily need one to have the other.
ReplyDeleteI have always found it interesting how young children just pick up language. It's so weird that just by listening to poeple talk we learned to speak english.When I'm around babys, I always wonder how much they can understand what I'm saying during their stage of learning.
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