Creative Problem Solving: How to Get Better Ideas

Duration: 28 min.

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1979

Creator: CORNET

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how individuals function with unconscious mental restrictions, and tells how to become free of such restrictions to discover our own creativity, thus increasing the ability to solve problems., Uses animation, brief dramatizations, and real situations to explore the conceptualization of creative ideas and their application to the business world. Illustrates some of the major psychological stages in creative thought, including Freud's theories and the split-brain theory, and identifies several reasons for creative blocks. Demonstrates how brainstorming can increase the quantity and quality of ideas by separating the production of ideas from their evaluation.

Complete Record: , Creativity is often viewed as an endowment of the elite few. This film shows how the act of creative problem solving can be developed in each individual but is often inhibited by criticism or lack of self-confidence. Animated sequences explore the psychological underpinnings of creativity according to Freud, and Professor James L. Adams suggests ways of implementing the dictum, {The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.}, Uses animation, brief dramatizations, and real situations to explore the conceptualization of creative ideas and their application to the business world. Illustrates some of the major psychological stages in creative thought, including Freud's theories and the split-brain theory, and identifies several reasons for creative blocks. Demonstrates how brainstorming can increase the quantity and quality of ideas by separating the production of ideas from their evaluation., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.