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opinions_on_5.1.docxRe:Module 5 DQ 1 Nadia Bhatti
Affective creativity is an important part of developing the ability to problem solves interpersonal issues (Forgas, 2002). As a human, there are so many facets that can affect people's ability to see clearly such as financial needs, social needs, emotional needs, and intellectual needs and being able to empathize with those needs or being able to recognize those needs can help accommodate a remedy (Forgas, 2002). Affect plays a significant role in social cognition and judgments (Forgas, 2002). Affective states determine how we feel and, in turn, determine how we respond to our environment and deal with interpersonal stressors( Forgas, 2002). People acquire affective responses toward social stimuli. Affect also plays a role in how people represent themselves into their social experiences (Forga, 2002). Whereas, creativity is a trait that all to most humans possess. As there are many ways to encourage or enhance creativity or creative outlets to assess, deal, or address recurrent daily interpersonal issues (Onarheim &Frijs-Olivarius, 2013). From a cognitive standpoint affect effects a multitude of things within one person, but sometimes it takes creativity to be able to assess and resolve those daily issues from an external standpoint and an internal standpoint.
Forgas, J.(2002).feeling and doing: Affective influences on interpersonal behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 1-28affect also affects the way we interact interpersonally( Forgas, 2002). Onarheim, B., Frijs-Olivarius, M..(2013). Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training. Frontier Human Neuroscience, 7, 656-676
5.1 Keisha Harris
How useful is affective creativity in resolving recurrent daily interpersonal (social) issues? Why? Is affective creativity more important than cognitive learning or rational thinking in solving this type of problem? Why or why not?
I believe affective creativity is especially important in resolving interpersonal issues. A study developed by Isen and colleagues (1987) demonstrated that positive affect promotes creativity and problem solving (Isen, Daubman & Nowicki, 1987). The study showed that in situations where affective creativity was high, persons where in a happy feeling state and obtained higher joint benefits on integrative bargaining tasks and other social issues that required an innovative solution (Isen et al., 1987).
I tend to view affective creativity, cognitive learning and rational thinking as all being interconnected. Neurobiological evidence suggests that “the aspects of cognition that we recruit most heavily in schools, namely, learning, attention, memory, decision making, and social functioning, are profoundly affected by and subsumed within the processes of emotion. Emotion related processes are required for skills and knowledge to be transferred from the structured school environment to real-world decision making because they provide an emotional rudder to guide judgment and action” (Ashton-James & Chartrand, 2008, p. 1041). With that being said, I cannot say that affective creativity is more important, maybe equally important. In addition, I think other situational factors must be considered in determining which element is most important.
References:
Ashton-James, C. E. & Chartrand, T. L. (2008). Social cues for creativity: The impact of behavioral mimicry on convergent and divergent thinking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 4(5), 1036-1048.
Goldstein, E. B., (2011). Cognitive psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience, 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Deborah Hill
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Re:Module 5 DQ 2
John is required to take a professional development course to learn a new work function in order to keep his job. The course is offered by his company’s employee training division only as an online course that requires significant amounts of reading and writing. He is finding it difficult to learn in this manner. In his quest to find ways to help himself learn, he has taken a learning inventory and found that his prominent learning style is tactile/kinesthetic. He takes the results of the learning inventory to HR and requests accommodations under ADA because of his learning style. What is the most significant strategy the company can invoke to accommodate John and other employees like him? Defend your answer.
John's assessment concludes that a combination of physical practice and bodily activities are his best options for learning and completing task.
This further shows that continuing education in an online setting poses a threat to his success in part because the learning environment does not support his preferred style of learning. I am not sure how he would negotiate for special treatment unless he has been diagnosed with a disability that would provide alternatives to the method of instruction assignned. In John's case, he recognized his best style of learning because of employment mandate. His immediate need proably doesn't qualify the workplace to provide him with special arrangements.
John's company might try incorporating simulations in the format of games. Based on an artile I found called "It's Not All Fun and Games" are supporting a growing number of skill sets and providing feedback, assessed through non threatening conditions of learning (Weinstein, 2015).
This sresearch shows how more innovation takes place in technolgies to promote job skills. As an alternative method in the workplace John and other employees could benefit from these options without enduring affects of insecurities, and isolation in a distance learning an online environment. can be accomplished through fun using serious games like those applied in military practice exercises in readiness and preparedness while acheiving the skills necessary for continual learning is education (Weinstein, 2013). This sounds like the game of life and monopoly that teaches children social skills and money management.
References:
Weinstein, M. (2015). It's Not All Fun and Games. Training, 52(5), 36-41.
