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1 online resource (xiv, 270 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780128166154
Inhalt:
Front Cover -- Aging and Creativity -- Aging and Creativity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Plan -- Approach -- 1 - Creativity: introduction -- Introduction -- What is creativity? -- Creative products: the standard definition-"novelty and value" -- Problems with the value criterion. Creativity as intentional novelty? -- Intention and serendipity -- Intentional use of chance -- Aleatory art -- Automatism -- Assessing novelty -- Novelty and nonobviousness: the case of patents -- Novelty: recognition versus generation -- Creativity: big- and little-, mini-, and pro- -- Problems: routine, insight, and creative -- Defining problems -- Solving routine, noninsight problems -- Heuristic search: hill-climbing -- Means-ends analysis (problem-reduction) -- Insight problems -- Creative problems -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 2 - Age and aging -- Introduction -- Chronological aging -- Defining "old age" -- Life expectancy -- Life span -- Supercentenarians -- Population aging -- Overview -- Biological aging -- Normal aging -- Visible changes -- Invisible changes -- Aging and disease -- Connecting aging to disease -- A healthy old age? -- Why do we age biologically? -- Programmed theories of aging -- Damage theories of aging -- Overview -- Psychological aging -- Life-span development -- Freud -- Jung -- Erikson -- Super -- Adaptation -- Activity versus disengagement -- Selective optimization and compensation -- Socioemotional selectivity theory -- Personality -- Personality definitions -- Trait approaches -- Different types of change over the lifespan -- Stability or change? -- Openness to experience -- Life events and personality change -- Health and personality change -- Personality disorders-the dark side -- Overview -- Social aging -- Overview -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary -- Conclusions.
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ISBN 9780128164013
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gilhooly, K. J., 1946 - Aging and creativity London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2021 ISBN 9780128164013
Sprache:
Englisch
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