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Creativity from childhood to adulthood: A difference of degree and not of kind
Author(s) -
Keegan Robert T.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219967206
Subject(s) - creativity , analogy , psychology , developmental psychology , degree (music) , darwin (adl) , early childhood , early adulthood , cognitive psychology , social psychology , young adult , epistemology , acoustics , philosophy , physics , systems engineering , engineering
An idea used by Darwin to explain the great difference in mental powers between the higher animals and humans while arguing for our continuity with them is used as the source analogy to explain the relationship between creativity in childhood and creativity in adulthood.