34.2: Robert Sternberg's 5 Components of Creativity

5. a creative environment

innovative/interactive environment sparks, supports, and refines creative ideas

2. imaginative thinking skills

provide the ability to see things in novel ways, to recognize patterns, and to make connections. Having mastered a problem's basic elements, we can redefine or explore it in a new way.

3. a venturesome personality

seeks new experiences, tolerates ambiguity and risk, and perseveres in overcoming obstacles.

4. intrinsic motivation

is the quality of being driven more by interest, satisfaction, and challenge than by external pressures

1. expertise

well-developed knowledge—furnishes the ideas, images, and phrases we use as mental building blocks.