Introduction to Psychology

Introduction to Psychology control complex behavior, and that it is both necessary and possible to infer those processes from behavior. Animals came to be seen as "goal seeking agents that acquire, store, retrieve, and internally process information at many levels of cognitive complexity.” Creativity- Is the ability to produce something that is both new and valuable. One component of creativity is the ability to break away from conventional approaches when the occasion demands it and to engage in divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the generation of novel ideas that depart from the norm. In part, this means being able to apply concepts or propositions from one domain to another unrelated domain in a manner that produces a new insight. It also means refusing to be constrained by traditional approaches to a problem.

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