PY2025 - Lecture 09 - Creativity and Cognition & Emotion

Level-2 / Year-2 BPS accredited core module "Cognitive Psychology", held at Brunel University January-March 2015.
Key topics covered:Creativity (The Creative Product; The Creative Process; The Creative Person; Mad Genius Hypothesis; Divergent Thinking; Creativity Tests) Emotions (Purpose of Emotions; Emotional response; Emotions experience; Appraisal Models; Basic and Ontogenetic Emotions; Ekman; Learning Fear Response; LeDoux; Interaction between Emotions and Cognition; Dimensional Models of Emotion; Categorical Models of Emotions)

[personanongrata]

Your lectures are very interesting. But there's one thing I don't understand: You mention in your lecture that the concept of creativity is very similar to that of problem solving with simple problems. So why is there a lecture on creativity at all and why is there something like the test with the brick if the concepts are similar and creativity can be considered as one area of problem solving?