Terms Of Confusion Research Articles

Creativity, general creative abilities, and the creative individual

Creativity is one of the vaguest, most ambiguous, and most confused terms in psychology and education today. This is particularly unfortunate because teaching for creativity has become one of the latest and most flourishing fads and catchphrases on the current educational scene. Partly because of the conceptual confusion surrounding this term, many otherwise hardheaded educators have adopted highly unrealistic educational objectives regarding the nurturance of creativity, and many otherwise well-trained educational and school psychologists have deluded themselves into believing that they are able to identify pupils with unusual potentialities for creativity-

Informational models and their uses

An analysis of the selection and use of informational models in psychological research is undertaken. The axioms of different informational models are presented together with the deductions which have direct empirical application. The models are used to demonstrate many of the inadequacies and inaccuracies involved in the use of information theory in the psychological literature. It is also shown that certain related conceptual ambiguities are understandable in terms of confusions among various models.