Stage 1: Preparation
- Includes “the whole process of intellectual education
- Acquiring the requisite knowledge and skills of the field.
- Cognitive Psychology, a cognitive theory called schema theory (information is thought to be stored in the mind in the form of abstract knowledge structures called schemata)
- 3 types of Learning:
- Accretion, or the encoding of new information in terms of existing schemata;
- Tuning, or the modification and refinement of a schema due to its use in different situations; and
- Restructuring, or the process of creating new schemata through patterned generation (patterning by analogy on existing schemata) or schema induction(inducing from experience)
Stage 2: Incubation
- It is a “gestatory period”
- The problem is not consciously pursued;
- Free working of the unconscious or partially conscious processes of the mind
Stage 3: Illumination
- Is “the final ‘flash’ or ‘click’ i.e. the culmination of the incubation stage.
- Illumination is inspiration, revelation, insight ;
- It is the “Eureka!” or “Aha! “experience.
- At illumination, what has previously been unconscious suddenly becomes conscious.
- Illumination is a sudden, often joyful experience.
- The illumination of a fully formed work is not the usual case.
Stage 4: Verification
- In typical case, the incomplete product of illumination is subjected to a final stage, “Verification”
- Verification includes Revision, Elaboration, and Implementation.
- Verification checks the validity of the creative solution
Wallas’s model shortcomings
- Wallas’s model implies that the process of creativity is linear
- Creativity is most likely to be interactive and iterative.
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