Create, Imagine, Play quiz 6-11
One in ninety synesthetes experience _________, which are the written elements of language completely saturated in color (sometimes with gender and personality). (Explained in the video you watched about synesthesia.) Grappings graphites graphemes graphings
graphemes
During childhood play and drawing, a child experiments with self-images and images of otherness. Psychologists call this the ego-ideal mythical self superhero evoked-image
ego-ideal
Line (element or principle)
element
Shape (element or principle)
element
Space (element or principle)
element
Texture (element or principle)
element
value (element or principle)
element
1st-2nd grade
explore self and their relationship with and to family.
4th Grade
exploring their state
Creative Writers
expressive creativity
Visual Artists
expressive creativity
Andreasen mentions several studies in this chapter that point to the realization that by age 25 it is too late to continue training the brain once it is past the critical periods of childhood and young adulthood development. True False
False
Children develop a graphic vocabulary based on the symbols they see others make. True False
False
Children's invented human forms are directly taught to the next generation. True False
False
Cultural assimilation does not influence a child's drawing content or process. True False
False
Directed drawing and painting instruction such as that provided by Graham Shaw, Jon Gnagy, Bob Ross, Paint & Sip events are effective ways to continue your art development. True False
False
Engagement with nonviolent virtual games, books, movies, board games, and virtual simulations are the best ways to help develop a child's creativity and imagination. These often lead to the invention of a child's own world. True False
False
Experts say you can always predict an individual's level of adult success in visual art based on their early art work. True False
False
Imaginary worlds encountered through nonviolent virtual games, books, movies, board games, and virtual simulations are excellent ways to help develop a child's creativity and imagination. These often lead to the invention of a child's own world. True False
False
In analyzing a child's work of art, we can accurately interpret an child's meaning by just looking at the drawing and images produced. True False
False
Nathalie Miebach's sculptures are inspired by actual data but are imaginative and pure fantasy. True False
False
Observing and patterning are the only two other creative thinking tool integral to Transformational thinking. True False
False
Prophetic reality themes are only a part of children's artwork, adult artists "outgrow" this theme. True False
False
Specific product (close-ended) art lessons/activities are more effective in working with children of all abilities than open-ended art lessons/activities. True False
False
There is a direct connection between childhood Worldplay and adult creativity. True False
False
Traditional coloring books offer only passive activity or stress-relieving processes. "Anti-coloring books" provide opportunities for creative and artistic development because they have blank pages to fill in. True False
False
Visual symbolism starts after a child learns to communicate with words and numbers. True False
False
Visual thinking and imaging benefits people in only certain professions (such as art and engineering). True False
False
The creativity theory developed by Csikszentmihalyi (1988) describes the phenomenon of optimal experience as being a state in which (during and activity) the individual loses track of time, there is a good match between challenge and ability/skills, the activity is enjoyable for its own sake, and there is a sense of control over the outcome of the activity. What is the term for this theory? Paracosm Flow Immersion In the Zone
Flow
When we look at creative products (such as your ideas and final hook drawing) and evaluate the quality of results, which criteria are we using? Select all answers that apply. Fluency Originality Flexibility Plasticity Incubation
Fluency Originality Flexibility
Ages 7-12
For some children, the inventions of imaginary worlds takes place in the context of private play or play shared with a few others.
Folding origami flaps is based on packing circles square triangles lines organic shapes
circles
According to Andreasen (2005) in "Building a Better Brain," the human brain is responsive, adaptive and eternally changing. We are literally remaking our brains every second of our lives in response to the demands and pressure of our environment. It is the ability to retain and store specific memories. What is the term neuroscientists use for this concept? pliability plasticity neurolasticity flexibilty
plasticity
balance (element or principle)
principle
contrast (element or principle)
principle
emphasis (element or principle)
principle
movement (element or principle)
principle
pattern (element or principle)
principle
rhythm (element or principle)
principle
unity (element or principle)
principle
The three primary colors are blue, orange and violet orange, blue and green red, yellow and white red, blue, and yellow
red, blue, and yellow
A simple marker that indicates when a child's imagination is beginning to develop is when they produce controlled scribbles. they know all their colors. they can recite the alphabet. they can tie their shoes. the child tells their first fib.
the child tells their first fib.
According to the surveys Csikszentmihalyi has used, approximately what percentage of peoplesay they have never experienced "flow"? 15% 5% 10% 20%
15%
How much of the time when we are awake do we daydream? 20% 10% 5% 25% 40%
25%
The child has basic skills for presenting their own ideas and experiments of reality/experiences in symbolic form around ages 3-4 4-5 1-2 2-3
3-4
What percentage of the population experiences synesthesia? (Explained in the video you watched about synesthesia.) 1 4 10 25
4
According to Paget (1932), cited in Golomb (p. 40, 2002), children's invented human forms are directly taught to the next generation. True False
False
Ages 2-6
Simple substitution of one object for another. Animation of inanimate things.
This Japanese origamist has been credited for helping to popularize origami in the 20th century by developing a picture-based set of instructions that served as a universal language, fostering collaborations between artists and scientists. Akira Yoshizawa Jimmy Hsia Zhong You Tomohiro Tachi Taki Tameri
Akira Yoshizawa
Which of the following statements about a neuronal ensemble is untrue? All neurons of a neuronal ensemble tend to fire together in resonance. None of these answers. Neuronal ensemble encode memories of an object or an event. All neurons of a neuronal ensemble are located in the close physical proximity in the brain. All neurons of a neuronal ensemble have enhanced connections to each other.
All neurons of a neuronal ensemble are located in the close physical proximity in the brain.
Why might a synesthete be advantaged? (Explained in the video you watched about synesthesia.) All the extra hooks endow synesthetes with superior memories They don't have the ability to think negative thoughts They always taste food more vibrantly Researchers believe it's an evolutionary advantage that exists to aide in the postmodern world
All the extra hooks endow synethetes with superior memories
Robert Lang left his previous job to become a full-time origami artist. What was Lang's previous job? American physicist, worked for NASA College professor, taught at Harvard Inventor, worked for Disney World Engineer, worked for Rockwell Collins Avionics High school teacher
American physicist, worked for NASA
Although most people can "see" images within their "mind's eye," there are exceptions. Individuals who are not able to visualize images within their mind have a phenomenon known as Paracosm Pareidolia Apophenia Prosopagnosia Aphantasia
Aphantasia
The spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena (such as conspiracy theories, magic tricks) is called Paracosm Day Dreaming Fantasia Apophenia Pareidolia
Apophenia
Using art to encourage language learning for ELLs (at standard levels 1-Entering & 2 Beginning) can encourage understanding of context, setting, characters, social/emotional connections though generating questions, making guesses, kinesthetic participation, creating an image. Examples of these processes given in lecture include (mark all that apply): Art Charades Describe a Work of Art Strike a Pose Art Matching Game Art Bingo
Art Charades Describe a Work of Art Strike a Pose
Andreasen recommends specific exercises to enhance your own creativity. Which of the following does she suggest? Mark all that apply. Watch more TV and research things on the Web. Try new foods Be curious Exercise your imagination. Get involved with nature Sing a new song. Practicing the Thirteen Thinking Tools by Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein Practicing meditation or the exercise of "just thinking." Tackle a new area you know nothing about.
Be curious Exercise your imagination. Get involved with nature. Practicing the thirteen thinking tools by root-bernstein & Root-bernstein. Practicing meditation or the exercise of 'just thinking". Tackle a new area you know nothing about.
Contradiciton
Beyond different narrative, the words and pictures seem to assert the opposite of each other.
Ages 5-12
Complex play-acting of social roles or characters. Re-enactment of stories heard or read in books.
What term is defined by "the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture?" Cultural Assimilation Cultural Appropriation Cultural Simplification Acculturation Cultural Appreciation
Cultural Appropriation
According to Clements, R. D., Wachowiak, F. (2010) in the chapter on Art and Literacy (shared in lecture), observation, critical thinking and communication skills are mainly developed through learning to drawing and make art, not through discussion of art. True False
False
According to G.W. Paget (in "Child Art in Context," by Golomb, 2002), there are some visual differences across cultures, as well as differences in the structural characteristics of children's art development as well. True False
False
Enhancement
Each extends the meaning of the other.
complementary
Each provides information
"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."
Edward hopper
Color (element or principle)
Element
Form (element or principle)
Element
According to Clarie Golomb in the reading, "Child art in context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective," the following are the main sources of the differences seen in children's art between cultures and geography include: (mark all that apply). Accessibility to art museums. Emphasis on types of art forms in the culture. Approach to art pedagogy. Visual culture. Art resources available.
Emphasis on types of art forms in the culture Approach to art pedagogy Visual culture
What behaviors are associated with creative potential (creative giftedness as an adult)? Mark all that apply. Telling stories Being a precocious reader. Engaging in Worldplay Participating in play/theatre. Having an imaginary friend.
Engaging in Worldplay Participating in play/theatre. Having an imaginary friend.
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Which of the following have been designed with an important component of origami? Microwave oven Heart Stent Solar Panel Telescope Air Bags
Heart Stent Solar Panel Telescope Air Bags
Mathematician, Diana Taimina crocheted models in yarn to help explain and illustrate Hyperbolic geomtry Euclidean geometry Non-Euclidian geometry Plane geometry Solid geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
Reasoning about art
Improvement of reasoning about scientific images and concepts.
Drawing
Improvements in content, elaboration and organization of writing.
When it comes to TV, movies, video games and other projected, passive media in general, children often have a difficult time separating reality from make-believe-- especially in the case of media violence. Grossman & DeGaetano (2014) identify the effects of media violence. Mark all that apply. Increased aggression Desensitization to real-life and screen violence. Increased appetite for violence. Increased fear Increased imagination
Increased aggression Desensitization to real-life and screen violence. Increased appetite for violence. Increased fear
Instruction in Art
Increased development of reading readiness
Visualization Training
Increased sophistication of reading skills/interpretation of text.
According to Teresa Amabile, creativity is made up of three components, which one is not one of Amabile's components of creativity? Innate Talent Creative thinking skills Expertise/ Knowledge Motivation
Innate Talent
According to Csikszentmihalyi what is Big-C creativity? Ability to solve problems in novel ways and make discoveries about the domain. It involves an achievement by someone, who is a noted expert in their field, and that changes a domain. Gifted young children with creative abilities beyond their age-group's status Natural talent to perform well artistically (drawing, sc.ulpting, performing, etc.)
It involves an achievement by someone, who is a noted expert in their field, and that changes a domain.
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
Leonardo da vinci
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism. Essential Question(s): How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? 3rd Benchmark: Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form, & mood.
Literacy, RL explain how specific aspects of a texts's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.
Although there are some positive reasons to allow children to borrow or copy art images there are several reasons copying may impede art development. Which is NOT one of the reasons copying may impede art development? Copy of the style is consistent with no deviations Often stereotypical images (Snoopy, Manga, etc.) are attained. None of these answers. Mastery of conventional ways of drawing Copying does not provide all that is needed for artistic development
Mastery of conventional ways of drawing
Yani, a precocious and highly motivated young Chinese artist, showed the influence of Chinese art style and traditions in her paintings that have a theme of Monkeys Landscapes Flowers Children
Monkeys
5th grade
National histories and culture
Which of the following are considered attributes, behaviors and/or traits associated with creativity? Mark all that apply. Openness to sub-conscious material curiosity Overactive physically and mentally Preference for asymmetry tolerance for ambiguity sarcastic or cynical
Openness to sub-conscious material curiosity Overactive physically and mentally Preference for asymmetry tolerance for ambiguity sarcastic or cynical
Another term for Worldplay Paracosm Paradox Roxaboxen Whimsyism Sosartorias
Paracosm
This term is associated with the psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. Automatism Paracosm Apophenia Dongle Pareidolia
Pareidolia
According to the powerpoint in your studio, which artists are synesthetes? Paul Klee Winston Churchill Pablo Picasso David Hockney Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee David Hockney Wassily Kandinsky
"...the creation of new thoughts or ideas are not determined 'by encounters with the environment, but are constructed within the individual himself... the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must reinvent it.'" Which theorist said this? Wilson & Wilson Maslow Piaget Lowenfeld
Piaget
According to Beverly Gerber in Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Need through Art, the trouble shooting process in adapting lessons for special needs students includes all EXCEPT: Anticipating "Murphy's Law." Planning a lesson that will go pretty much as written. Identifying, minimizing, and preventing potential problems. Recognize and anticipate the needs of special education students. None of these answers.
Planning a lesson that will go pretty much as written.
What are the four stages of creative process according to Wallas (1926)? Preparation, Prediction, Process, Product Media, Process, Meditation, Product Brainstorming, Selection, Production, Analysis Preparation, Process, Incubation, Solution
Preparation, Process, Incubation, Solution
VISUAL ARTS - Creating Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. 3rd Grade Benchmark: Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
Reading & Writing Standards for Literature K-5. Benchmark Grade 3: W3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective details, and clear event sequences.
Which activity necessarily involves mental synthesis (mental synthesis is conscious purposeful prefrontal cortex-controlled imagination)? None of these answers. Reading a new fairy tale Remembering your grandmother Dreaming during sleep about a memorable trip Hallucinating with vivid colors
Reading a new fairy tale
Visual Arts Responding Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Enduring Understanding: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world. 3rd Grade Benchmark:�Determine messages communicated by an image.
Reading standards for Literature K-5, Example from Grade 3: RL. 3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
K. Danko-McGhee & R. Slutsky (2007) discuss children as "Meaning Makers" and indicate this is usually seen at which stage of development? Schematic Stage (ages 7-9) None of these answers. The Gang Stage (ages 9-11) Preschematic Stage (ages 4-7) Named Scribbling Stage (ages 2-4)
Schematic Stage (ages 7-9)
Middle school/High school
Self-Aware, influenced by peers & belong to peer groups. Revisit earlier themes/topics with more complexity/ambiguity.
A group of pages is known as a __________________. Typically these can include 4, 8, 16, or 32 pages (sometimes more). In commercial printing, these are often designed out of a single large sheet. signature manuscript chapbook booklet dimple
Signature
3rd grade
Study community
When a child experiments with self-images and self-possibilities but substitutes another image (i.e., an animal or object) for themselves this is called a mythical self a super ego surrogate self a twin self
Surrogate self
According to Clements, R. D., Wachowiak, F. (2010) in the chapter on Art and Literacy (shared in lecture), even after we learn to write, drawing is essential because We create a sense of community through our drawing It helps us to elaborate We need a way to relieve stress We formulate meaning through representation. We need illustrations to go with our words
We formulate meaning through representation
Which of the concepts in Ten Lessons the Arts Teach, Elliott Eisner (2002) and highlighted in the lecture, is something to keep in mind, especially when working with student who are very young or have learning differences/disabilities? The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. It's not a mistake, it is an opportunity
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
Normative
The basis of this reality is the exploration of roles and good and evil in the eyes of the child. You may see a conflict or resolution between a "right" side and a "wrong" side. This based on a reality of standards concerning the implicit and explicit rules by which an individual or a society behaves.
The study that investigated synesthesia is called the Concrete Abstact Effect the Bouba Kiki Effect the Baba Ganoush Effect the Dominate Senses Effect
The bouba kiki effect
Archeological
The reality of the self, explores questions like Who am I? What am I? What will I be?
Prophetic
The reality that portrays images of future selves & actions, inventions and created worlds.
Common
The reality that refers to the familiar and everyday perceptions and experiences of objects and events that humans share.
Some of the characteristics of children who draw as "Meaning Makers" include (mark all that apply). The work can include drawing, scribbling, creating letter-forms, or creating random strings of letters, all used—sometimes even simultaneously—in the child's attempt to communicate an idea. Children begin to use emergent writing. They become better spellers. Because of their cognitive advances, children are able to write and tell more elaborate stories based on their drawings. Their writing is always separate from the drawing.
The work can include drawing, scribbling, creating letter-forms, or creating random strings of letters, all used—sometimes even simultaneously—in the child's attempt to communicate an idea. Children begin to use emergent writing. Because of their cognitive advances, children are able to write and tell more elaborate stories based on their drawings.
You can generally identify a student who has gifted potential in the arts or other areas Through early childhood drawings. By middle school achievement A. in middle school only after they have reached Piaget's stage of formal operations. In high school after they have demonstrated proficiency at Schaie's achieving stage. Through a series of standardized tests None of these answers.
Through early childhood drawings
Robert Lang makes a joke about a form that is popular for current origamists to include in their origami.. He calls the addition of these "origami memes." What is the form? Teeth Tails Hair clothes
Toes
To become an art therapist a person must have which of the following? Mark all the apply. Training in studio art (drawing, painting, clay, etc.) Background study in psychology in related areas. A masters degree. A background in biology. A BA in education
Training in studio art (drawing, painting, clay, etc.) Background study in psychology in related areas. A masters degree.
According to Davis and others, creativity can be taught True False
True
According to Davis and others, you are born with creativity True False
True
Comparing a child's drawings to drawings of their age-peers may give clues as to the child's development and well-being. True False
True
Creative process requires both intuition (divergence) and logic (convergence). True False
True
From the lecture and reading on Cultural Influences in Children's Drawings (Paget cited in Golomb, 2002), children in each culture naturally invent drawings that represent human forms. True False
True
From the lecture and reading on Cultural Influences in Children's Drawings (Paget cited in Golomb, 2002), young children's drawing styles and meaning-making strategies develop independently from adult image models. True False
True
From the reading on Cultural Influences in Children's Drawings (Paget cited in Golomb, 2002), children in each culture naturally invent drawings that represent human forms. True False
True
From the reading on Cultural Influences in Children's Drawings (Paget cited in Golomb, 2002), young children's drawing styles and meaning-making strategies develop independently from adult image models. True False
True
Synesthesia is more common in artists who excel in making metaphors. True False
True
Typically, development of imagination, especially Worldplay, diminishes or fades out around puberty. True False
True
Using art is an effective way to encourge language learners to develop speaking and writing skills. True False
True
Using geometry-based origami can be an open-ended art process/lesson. True False
True
Very few people are "Big C" creators. True False
True
Visual symbols from TV, Internet, films, drawings, paintings require reading just as much as word symbols. True False
True
When observing and analyzing the realities portrayed in children's drawings, more than one reality can often be seen True False
True
You can fold a pyramid from one paper plate. True False
True
In his TED talk, Robert Lang talks about how the application of math principles to origami crease patterns comes down to 4 basic laws. Which of the following are included in these laws? Two Colorability Mountain-Valley Counting Angles Around a Vertex Folding by Odd Numbers Packing Lines
Two Colorability Mountain-Valley Counting Angles Around a Vertex
Synesthesia is about connections between Technology and learning Illusions and reality Art and other subjects Two or more of the senses
Two or more of the senses
Flow theory is the basis of development of effective Story Books Academic exams Video games Song Lyrics
Video games
This is a complex and elaborate form of make-believe of creating imaginary places is a more persistent behavior that last for weeks, months, even years--- and is revisited over and again. Day Dreaming Flow Paradox Cosplay Worldplay
Wordplay
Counterpoint
Words and pictures tell different stories
A two-year study conducted on 400 students in the Laboratory for Interactive Learning (Olshanksy, 1995) showed that students who engaged in image making through the writing process showed what kind of improvements? Mark all that apply. Writing topics that were more imaginative Story plots that were more fully developed. Stories were developed with more humor. Rich descriptive language was frequently observed. There was a strong sense of empathy among the characters.
Writing topics that were more imaginative Story plots that were more fully developed. Rich descriptive language was frequently observed.
Children who are gifted in art typically exhibit the following behavior a rage to master Indifference to the type of materials they are using. Sensitivity to cold and hot temperatures. A passion for reading They are left-handed.
a rage to master
Mathematicians
adaptive creativity
Scientists
adaptive creativity
When does imagination typically start to emerge? age 1 age 2 age 3 age 5 age 7
age 2
Nathalie Miebach's uses what type of process to create her sculpture? Basket weaving Carving in wood Modeling clay None of these answers. Found or recycled objects
basket weaving
6th grade
begin to study global connections
Video Game Designers
both adaptive and expressive creativity.
When a child experiments with self-images and self-possibilities but substitutes another image (i.e., an animal or object) for themselves, they use this process document their development. to safely experiment with sometimes adverse feelings and ways of being so the possibilities can be considered. to safely experiment with sometimes adverse feelings and ways of being so the possibilities can be seen by others. to dream and plan for the future.
to safely experiment. with sometimes adverse feelings and ways of being so the possibilities can be considered.
Children begin to understand visual symbols at age 5 around ages 3-4 between 1&2 years of age very early, just after birth
very early, just after birth
Nathalie Miebach is a sculptor who translates data into patterns of sculpture so we can better understand __________________________ (fill in the blank) weather and storms the human body and cancer the ocean and global warming outer space and movement of the planets habitats and animal migration
weather and storms
The Hebbian principle is based on the principle that: "Neurons that fire together, _____." Wire across Spend more energy than neurons that fire separately. Wire together Create conscious Encode memory
wire together
symmetry
word and pictures are on equal footing.
