THE RELATIONSHIP CREATIVITY – CREATIVENESS AS A COMPLEX OBJECT OF RESEARCH STUDIES

The article analyses the relationship creativity – creativeness. These two concepts in specialized scientific studies either complement one another or are accepted as synonyms in accordance to the author’s stand. That is why our efforts are aiming to distinguish the ideas and stands of separate specialists, which discuss these concepts. The research conception is based on the understanding that it is essential for a complete personality to possess specific knowledge, skills, beliefs, attitudes, values as well as motivation do develop their creativity. The emphasis is placed on clarifying the separate elements of the two concepts in Bulgaria as well as in the Western European and the Russian literature. In this discourse three basic kinds of opinions concerning the relationship between the concepts creativity and creativeness can be outlined, namely: creativity is perceived as a synonym of the concept creativeness; the differentiation between the concepts creativity and creativeness is provisory and lastly, there exists a content difference between the concepts creativity and creativeness. These opinions are substantiated with certain ideas of prominent specialists in the field of philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, etc. Separate In order to achieve a clearer explanation of the relationship between the concepts creativity – creativeness various trends and schools have also been studied, which supplements the analysis, such as the intuitive trend, the rational trend, including the abstractionism, associationism, behaviorism, gestalt psychology as well as the nativism and sociological trends.