{"id":4550,"date":"2018-10-27T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2019-05-25T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T03:16:56","slug":"accomplishment-and-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/positive-psychology\/accomplishment-and-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Accomplishment and Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today\u2019s Goals<\/p>\n
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Mini-Review<\/p>\n
Not consistently correlated<\/p>\n
Common humanity, treat self with kindness, take mindful approach to the negative aspects of the self<\/p>\n
SE: more narcissistic, evaluation (comparison to others), times of failure are distorted, negative reaction SC: connect you with others, common humanity, gives buffer in times of failure<\/p>\n
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Accomplishment<\/p>\n
Drive – have good plans, good energy levels, really working hard toward whatever goals<\/p>\n
Business\/academic success, art\/expression, occupational attainment, income level<\/p>\n
Good fit between everything that an individual finds themselves in<\/p>\n
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Overall chart – ultimate goal to reach tenure (in life goals)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ability<\/p>\n ‘g’: general intelligence – combination to the extent that there is one ability, one factor<\/p>\n As you move toward the center, complexity increases<\/p>\n Correlates of \u2018g\u2019<\/p>\n Correlations across the full spectrum of ability<\/p>\n General Intelligence: results of these tests<\/p>\n Strong correlation with educational achievement \u2022 Specific pattern of abilities important Seems to be important to prediction as well<\/p>\n Tends to predict what field you’re in<\/p>\n Ability gradient with the STEM fields doing better on standardized tests<\/p>\n STEM fields find visual abilities to be much lower in comparison with the other fields, while spatial and math abilities stay much higher<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Interests<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Represents 2 common models<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mastery<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Correspondence between these things is what leads to satisfaction or satisfactoriness (objectively good)<\/p>\n If interests fit well with that is expected of you and how you are rewarded If your abilities fit well with what abilities are required from you<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more thought\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Creativity<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Creativity: Cognitive<\/p>\n Thinking about things in new\/unusual ways<\/p>\n Block out unusual\/crazy ideas – helpful to creativity Associated with things like schizophrenia, etc.<\/p>\n Get 3 words – job is to come up with the one common theme or one word that can be paired with those 3 o Fish\/Mine\/Rush o Back\/Step\/Screen o Cottage\/Swiss\/Cake<\/p>\n Unusual Uses Task: give participants opportunity to generate possible creative answersT o number, originality, flexibility across categories, elaboration\/detail<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Creativity: Personality<\/p>\n More likely to pay attention to distracting information<\/p>\n Link with craziness o Mad genius paradox: tend to have less average mental health issues<\/p>\n Individuals at the most creative end tend to experience more mental health issues (more prone to mental illness)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Creativity: Environment<\/p>\n Broad cultural factors o E.g., dark ages vs. golden ages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s Goals Mini review: Self-compassion, self-esteem Consider cultural differences in the self (catch-up) Understand ability, interests, and drive, and how they combine to produce accomplishment Understand the cognitive, personality,… Continue Reading Accomplishment and Creativity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Educational Achievement<\/td>\n .70-.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Work Performance<\/td>\n .20-.60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Income<\/td>\n .30-.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Criminal Behaviour<\/td>\n -.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n SES Origin<\/td>\n .40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n SES<\/td>\n .50-.70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Assortative Mating<\/td>\n .50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Interests<\/td>\n .20-.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n
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