Dictionary of Creativity
Preface
Table of Contents:
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 Acceptance
 Accommodation
 Acme
 Adaptation
 Adoption
 Age curve
 Alienation
 Altered states of consciousness
 Ambiguity
 Amorphous cognition
 Approaches to creativity
 Artificial intelligence
 Aspects of creativity
 Assessment
 Associationism
[Associative theory]
 Audience
 Autonomy
References
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Associative theory

This theory approaches creative thinking as the formation of "associative elements into new combinations which either meet special requirements or are in some way useful" (Mednick 1962).

Associative theory. Dictionary of Creativity: Terms, Concepts, Theories & Findings in Creativity Research / Compiled and edited by Eugene Gorny. Netslova.ru, 2007.
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