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WOK: Imagination Maricel Araneda & María José Balta, What is the…
WOK: Imagination
Maricel Araneda & María José Balta
Definition:
Imagination is our ability to create new mental images and representations.
When we use our imagination, we involuntary connect our ideas to previous experiences.
Can original thinking be a challenge because of this?
Imagination is often associated with creativity. Creativity is the ability to join together distinctive ideas in new and useful combinations.
Creativity can be considered to be purposeful, with its aim to produce innovative and useful ideas, while imagination can sometimes lack purpose and potentially lead anywhere.
We can use our imagination to create visual, auditory, olfactory or gustatory mental images based on previous experience and memories.
The use of imagination
Imagination is vital to the understanding and appreciation of poetry, prose fiction, theater. The creation and understanding of metaphors, analogies requires the use of imagination.
Imagination is necessary for empathy
– our ability to understand and share the feelings of another. We use empathy in CAS activities and in the Area of Knowledge of ethics.
Imagination is vital to the creation of representations of different forms .
maps
photographs
graphs
musical notation
mathematical symbols
computer programs
For innovation and creation: For innovations in the field of quantum mechanics and in the invention of the wheel for example.
The most rapid period of myelination is during early childhood, suggesting that children have more vivid imaginations.
It can also be argued that an adult's abundance of logic and reason can limit their imagination. Children lack these characteristics and are therefore unrestricted when using their imagination.
However it can also be argued that children who are involved in many activities (such as sports, music, etc.) have limited imagination than those who don't as these experiences restrict the development of imagination.
What is the difference between creativity and imagination?
Does imagination depend on one's age?