Creativity Of Mind Research Articles

A mixed methods exploration of “Creativity in Mind”, an online creativity-based intervention for low mood and anxiety

Background Within the current context of a global pandemic, the value of the Internet has been greatly elevated for many people. This study is an investigation into a 30-day online intervention called Creativity in Mind (CIM). Aims To provide a preliminary indication of the relationship between participation in CIM and change in mood symptoms and wellbeing. Methods A co-produced mixed methods design was used to evaluate CIM. Data was obtained from 55 participants. Each day for 30 days participants received a predetermined creative challenge that they were encouraged to complete and share within the group. Measures of mood and wellbeing were collected at three time points, including a 3-month follow-up. Qualitative interviews were undertaken with 18 participants and analysed using framework analysis. Results Scores on mood and wellbeing measures showed an overall significant improvement following completion of the programme. However, only a small number of participants demonstrated clinically significant improvement (14%) or deterioration (5%). The qualitative data indicated that CIM was experienced positively, with some negative emotions arising from the volume of interactions and negative comparisons made between participants. Conclusions Preliminary results demonstrate that the pattern of clinically significant change across individual participants was comparable to other psychological therapy.

Development of subjectivity of future teachers in the course of professional training

The values of public life in the twenty first century have changed dramatically. For successful socialization, specialists need: critical thinking, readiness for changes, reasonableness of their dispositions, conscious decision making, and active management of the situation. Psychologists have designated this set of personal qualities as subjectivity. At all times, it has not lost its professional significance for teachers, and today compliance with the challenges of the era is becoming relevant for them. Subjectivity of future teachers trained in colleges and universities should be considered as an adaptive quality of personality that requires creativity of mind and behavior. Debates about the psychological content of subjectivity, its types, and determinants of formation and change have not clearly defined it as a theoretical category of scientific psychology. The purpose of the conducted empirical research is to identify the types of subjectivity of future teachers in educational activities. We studied the development of subjectivity of future teachers in the learning process. It was assumed that the dominant type of consciousness of the student determines the configuration of its subjectivity, which can be changed in the course of training. Subjectivity is presented as a psychological construct integrally describing the ability of a personality to voluntarily change oneself and the surrounding reality. The criteria distinguishing it from consciousness are value-meaning orientation and self-regulation, which are revealed in transformational activity. Subjectivity was researched in 314 students of pedagogical universities and technical schools during four years of their studies. The type of prevailing consciousness was diagnosed by the indicators «active» and «contemplative» and communicativeness - by the indicators «communicability» and «reflectivity». The results are presented as graphic profiles of subjectivity, which are classified into four types according to the dominating indicator: «philosopher», «organizer», «facilitator» and «teacher»; the types were further described. The psychological support of the students was performed with a view of increasing their subjectivity. This was achieved via trainings promoting consciousness, social activity, self-concept, and aspirations. The final diagnostics of the future teachers showed subjectivity increase by the above indicators: in the group of technical school students - from 17 to 32%, in the group of full-time university students - from 16 to 22 %, in the group of university students by correspondence - from 12 to 23 %.

Creative Content Management: Importance, Novelty, and Affect as Design Heuristics for Learning Management Systems

Background : This paper examines creativity in content management (CM) by presenting a case study analysis of an original, open-source, web-based learning-management system (LMS). It explores existing literature and suggests new ideas about creativity and CM . Research questions : How can we conceptualize creativity in relation to CM? How can creativity be operationalized into specific design practices within CM? What dimensions of creativity should be considered when designing or evaluating creative CM systems? Situating the case : Theoretical research in content-management systems (CMSs) and LMSs has revealed a gap in our field's current understanding of how creativity relates to CM. Research studies related to the measurement of creativity have provided insight into characteristics and methodologies that could be adopted and adapted to evaluate creativity in CM. Studies from the learning sciences have investigated where LMSs fall short and suggested where new opportunities exist to better facilitate the informational needs of users. These works have pointed to a need for research on integrating creativity and CM, both in content and in the systems that manage content, and have laid the groundwork for this study . Methodology : This research investigates theories of creativity as they relate to CM by conducting a case study analysis of unique instructional software designed to deliver content to students enrolled in a university course. The primary evidence is taken from notes about the design and evaluation of the software and from survey data illustrating students’ user experiences . About the case : We developed a classification strategy for exploring creativity along three dimensions—importance, novelty, and affect—and then used this strategy to explore a unique system's approach to deal with content challenges in each of those areas. User experience impressions provide evidence of successes and failures of experimental CM in these domains . Conclusions : The study finds that this original LMS design did contain features that exhibited novelty, importance, and affect, and that such features can be used to identify creativity in product design as well as to assess the design of complex software systems such as CMSs and LMSs. This detailed analysis of an original design for an LMS suggests new ideas for implementing and using CMSs and LMSs in technical communication. The study concludes by presenting a rubric for evaluating creativity in CMSs and LMSs, or for designing such systems with creativity in mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Friedrich Nietzsche: Jenseits von Gut und Böse

How semantic deficits in schizotypy help understand language and thought disorders in schizophrenia: a systematic and integrative review.

Disorders of thought are psychopathological phenomena commonly present in schizophrenia and seem to result from deficits of semantic processing. Schizotypal personality traits consist of tendencies to think and behave that are qualitatively similar to schizophrenia, with greater vulnerability to such disorder. This study reviewed the literature about semantic processing deficits in samples of individuals with schizotypal traits and discussed the impact of current knowledge upon the comprehension of schizophrenic thought disorders. Studies about the cognitive performance of healthy individuals with schizotypal traits help understand the semantic deficits underlying psychotic thought disorders with the advantage of avoiding confounding factors usually found in samples of individuals with schizophrenia, such as the use of antipsychotics and hospitalizations. A search for articles published in Portuguese or English within the last 10 years on the databases MEDLINE, Web of Science, PsycInfo, LILACS and Biological Abstracts was conducted, using the keywords semantic processing, schizotypy and schizotypal personality disorder. The search retrieved 44 manuscripts, out of which 11 were firstly chosen. Seven manuscripts were additionally included after reading these papers. The great majority of the included studies showed that schizotypal subjects might exhibit semantic processing deficits. They help clarify about the interfaces between cognitive, neurophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms underlying not only thought disorders, but also healthy human mind's creativity.

Toward Quantum-Inspired Model of Mind

This paper proposes a mathematical formalism for describing the machinery of human mind creativity. Since some functions of mind support discreteness of cognition, but others support its continuity, while time in physics is always continuous, an attempt to overcome the continuous/discrete duality of mind performance is implemented via utilization of special critical points: terminal attractors and repellers that act as autonomous biological clock. In this paper, attention is concentrated upon the discrete mode of the mind activity since the continuous mode was introduced and discussed in details in our previous publications. The fundamental novelty of the model is in its capability to move from disorder to order without external inputs in violation of the second law of thermodynamics; that suggests that this kind of dynamics requires extension of modern physics to include physics of life. Conceptually the discrete model links to its continuous version represented by a hypothetical particle of life that is briefly discussed prior to derivation of the discrete model. However, the discrete model should be considered as the next step in study of mind dynamics since it provides a bridge to mathematical origin of self-generated novelties in such brunches as mathematical logic and linguistic, i.e. the highest level activities of human mind. The proposed model deals with rules of mind activity rather than with its content.

GENESIS AND DYNAMICS OF IPR AND ITS RELEVANCE TO INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Intellectual property is the personal property resulting from the creative or inventive work of individual or individuals. It is all about human creativities and a product of human mind. Intellectual property like other types of property is protected by several laws and regulations to offer protection against illegal ownership and user ship. Such set of rights is IPR. Presently, TRIPs has indentified the IPRs internationally. These include patents, copyrights, trademarks, and geographical indications, protection of undisclosed information, layout design of integrated circuits and industrial design. Although international intervention by TRIPs, there is many burning issues still need to be focused aggressively. These areas include protection of traditional knowledge, protection of products from natural resources and protection of people’s right (tribals/farmers/breeders). The Indian pharmaceuticals industries at high pace of development and expansion are research/knowledge based industries which largely rely on human mind creativity and innovation. The industry uses the intellectual potential of their research scientist and inventors investing huge economic resources. The economic progress and market sustainability depends on their thought based new products and processes. Under such situation, the protection of such wide area of intellectual property and their financial interest is of paramount importance for future of industry and human welfare in health care sector. Research-based, innovation-led companies that seek to develop new drugs, improve or adapt existing drugs or develop new pharmaceutical/medical equipment or processes, tend to rely heavily on the IPR/patent system to ensure they recover the investments incurred in research and development. IPR laws and acts had passed through many changes in response to TRIPs. The major provisions affecting IPR are shifting from process patent to product patent, extending patent term for 20 years and many others.

News Letter from Greece (1979 and 1980)

contributed photographs with their usual generosity. It is always a pleasure to thank them. I am indebted also to Dr. Halford Haskell of the American School. The previous News Letter appeared in AJA 83 (1979) 323-29. The scholarly world has suffered a great loss with the death in 1979 of Anastasios Orlandos, Professor of Architecture at the Polytechneion and of Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Athens, member of the Academy of Athens, for many years Director of the Service of Restoration and Preservation and, since 1951, General Secretary of the Archaeological Society in Athens. His numerous scholarly publications, spanning an extraordinarily full and productive lifetime, cover a wide range. Perhaps it is not too much to say that his work reflects not only an imaginative creativity of mind peculiarly his own, but an era steeped in the Classical and Byzantine past as a matter of course in education and upbringing. In late February 1981, a series of violent earthquakes, with epicenter in the Gulf of Corinth, caused substantial material damage, while loss of human life was fortunately on a small scale. Reports of the effects on archaeological monuments mention some cracking of one corner of the Parthenon, the breaking of many vases in the cases of the Athens National Museum and the collapse of a tower at Andritsaina. More serious damage seems to have occurred at Perachora, while ancient Corinth seems virtually unaffected. ATTICA

Hume's Blue Patch and the Mind's Creativity

ed the rule governing the move from tone 1 to tone 2, tone 2 to tone 3, and have applied this rule to tone i to generate tonej without in fact having an idea of tone j in advance? (The fact that he cannot articulate this rule is irrelevant; this is often the case with regard to situations of how.) Conversely, failure to produce the tone would not necessarily indicate that the man in question does not have the idea of tone j-he may simply lack the degree of control over his vocal chords necessary to create that sound.32 Once more, Hume's example looks to be irrelevant on logical grounds-the subject may have the idea in question prior to the impression, but there is no way of either his or our knowing that he does. This objection is of course similar to the private language argument which is directed against contemporary Humean phenomenalistic empiricists.33 It thus appears that if the above argument is correct, Hume need not have supplied even this one contradictory example to his general principle, since the case in question cannot be tested and hence counts neither for nor against the principle. Colorado State University. 3'This argument was suggested to me by Linda M. Rollin. 32But see B. Croce, Aesthetic (New York, 1964) for an interesting alternative view. 33The argument is primarily due to Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.62 on Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:38:56 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms