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Essay plan 2
Characteristics of a creative mind
low latent inhibition
Reduced the activation of the Executive Attention Network (a bit, but not completely) and increasing the activation of the Imagination and Salience Networks.
seeing visual analogys
randomness - evolution of species -associative memory and deliberate judgement like natural selection allow us to take advantage of randomness
quantum effects in brain
Chaos theory - chaotic neutral activity in the brain helps prevent cell-networks from being trapped in certain patterns of activity - ability to earn and recall sensory patterns
artists ignoring constraints of real world perspectives
impressionists focusing on patches of lights rather than visual representation
wiring of certain neurones
Unusual level of chemical or neurotransmitter which makes link between distant neurons easier to achieve
Correlations between creative and mentally ill minds
Creative processes arise from the unconscious and many mental illnesses cause a more unconscious state.
Does mental illness cause divergent thinking?
Do particular illnesses show more significant correlations than others.
automatism
subliminal self
Dropping all constraints of the mind, which is seen sometimes in mental illness, will often lead to confusion not creativity often
outside factors
knowledge of other subject
environment
Introduction
define creativity
creativity resulting from unusual combination of ideas
p creative and h creative
Heuristic - productive laziness - unmanageable tasks transformed into easy ones by abandoning constraints
serpendity
needs an inherently improbable event
To someone who cannot see the connection will not view something as creative or art
Connecting two ideas - can cause other concepts to be thought of on the way
Creativity depending on the mind's association power
connectionist network
creativity due to coincidence
Characteristics of a mentally ill mind
Increased visual imagery
Creative ideas rising from instinct caused by mental health
obsession over a certain idea/topic/skill
how long allowed for unconscious thinking - impacted by mental illnesses
specific disorders
Anxiety is a mechanism that leads us to consider more possibilities than we otherwise would
How artists are presented in the media
Influence of prominent figures seen as the face of art world
Specific words or phrases commonly used and how these phrases can lack evidence in their use.
romanticisation of mental illness in correlation with artists
artists will actually refine and correct work but are seen as 'anything oes'
h creative artists seen more creative as p creative