09/19/2019
The UGA Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development
Please join us! There will be a light reception following the talk.
Creative Thinking: Processes, Strategies, Skills and Errors
It has long been held the production of solutions to problems calling for creative thinking calls for the execution of multiple cognitive processing operations. In this talk Dr. Michael Mumford will review the evidence accrued for one model of creative thinking processes. The role of expertise in process execution will be examined along with the specific strategies that give rise to more effective process execution. The key skills contributing to effective execution of these processes will be described along with the errors that act to undermine effective process execution. The implications of these observations for the development and assessment of creative potential will be discussed.
Dr. Michael D. Mumford is the George Lynn Cross Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma where he directs the Center for Applied Social Research. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Georgia in 1983 in the fields of industrial and organizational psychology and psychometrics. Dr Mumford is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (divisions 3, 5, 10, 14), the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has published more then 400 peer reviewed articles (h index 90) in the areas of creativity, leadership, planning, and ethics. Dr Mumford has served as senior editor of The Leadership Quarterly and sits on the editorial boards of the Creativity Research Journal, the Journal of Creative Behavior, the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, and the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving among other publications. Dr Mumford has served as principal investigator on grants totaling more than $30 million from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, the Department of State, and the Council of Graduate Schools. He is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's M. Scott Myers award for Applied Research in the Work Place, the Academy of Management's Eminent Leadership Scholar award, and the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts' Arnheim award for Distinguished Career Contributions.
