Creative Experiences of Children

Creative Experiences for Children 2(1+1)

Lesson 6 : Theoretical Perspectives On Creativity

Behaviouristic View

The behaviorists believes a person is not an initiating force in the creative act, but rather a focal point where environmental and genetic forces come together to have a common effect. The behaviorists recognize creativity as novel or unusual behavior which is nevertheless a learned response fundamentally not different from the other behaviours and explainable in stimulus response terms. Skinner states that the environment acts upon the individual in different ways. Task is to analyze the genetic and environmental histories responsible for an individual's behavior and then to create an environment for creative behavior to occur.